Event Thursday: Veterans Panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Thursday, November 3, The Yale Afghanistan Forum will be hosting an open discussion with four local veterans who served in Afghanistan. This is a great chance to learn about life on the front lines, their experiences with Afghans and work in reconstruction.

Come to the Saybrook-Branford Room (through Entryway A on the York Street side of Saybrook College) 7PM and meet:

Cpl. Frank Hanrahan: 3rd Ranger Bn 2008-2011 two tours Afghanistan Kandahar province, also Iraq.

Sfc. Christopher Blauvelt: CT National Guard 2010 Lahgman province.

Sfc. Michael Perdue: CT National Guard 2010 Nangahar,Nuristan province, also Iraq.

Sgt. William Johnston: CT National Guard 2006-2007 Oruzgan,Lahgman,Nuristan province, also First Gulf War.

“From Yale to Afghanistan”

The Yale Daily News has an article about recent Yale grads serving in the US military in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Week: 10 Years of War

Come to our kick-off event for Afghanistan Week at Yale:

Check of the rest of the week’s events on the Upcoming Events page!

Welcome to a new year

YAF is ready for the fall. Check back for our calendar of exciting events, and come visit us at the Student Activities Bazaar, Sunday Sept 4, 1-3 PM at Bienecke Plaza.

“The Ministry” comes to Afghan TV…

… and YAF is highly amused.

Town Hall on Women’s Rights

America Abroad and Radio Killid recently hosted a town hall meeting on women’s rights in Afghanistan with audiences from Washington and Kabul. The link to the radio program is here.

“Don’t Listen to Experts on Afghanistan”

Masood Aziz, former senior advisor at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC, recently published an article on The Daily Beast outlining the six fallacies that continue about US involvement in Afghanistan. Follow the link here.

“Joined by War”

America Abroad, a monthly documentary program on NPR, recently produced a program with Killid Radio, Afghanistan’s first twenty-four hour  talk radio station. The program was a conversation between two live audiences, Afghans in Kabul and Americans in Washington, DC, about US involvement in Afghanistan. Follow the link here.

Op-Eds

YAF’s Shahla Naimi has written two op-eds on the Kill Team murders, and the violent protests sweeping Afghanistan.

“The Flames of Dissent” Yale Daily News

“Why no US outrage for Kill Team soldiers who murdered Afghans?” New Haven Register

Event: Detention Procedures

Upcoming Event: Detention Procedures and Rule of Law in Afghanistan, with Michael Gottlieb, former deputy director of Joint Task Force 435, US Forces Afghanistan, and Associate White House Counsel.

Monday April 11, 2:30-3:45 PM. Rosenkranz Hall Rm 006.