AISS News
The Death of Sandy Gall: The Voice Who Stood With a Wounded People
Sandy Gall, the British journalist, author, and documentarian, died on Sunday at the age of 97. He began his career at a local Scottish newspaper nearly seventy years ago, later working with Reuters and ITN. But in the memory of the Afghan people, he is not remembered for his titles or career milestones. He is remembered because he came close, b...
Politics Rooted in Ethics: Edi Rama’s Message at the Avicenna Peace Award Ceremony
On the evening of Thursday, 26 June 2025, during the sixth ceremony of the Avicenna International Award for Intercultural Cooperation for Peace, Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania delivered a pre-recorded acceptance message that stood as both a statement of gratitude and a moral reckoning. In his...
6th Avicenna International Peace Award Ceremony
The Sixth Avicenna International Award for Intercultural Cooperation for Peace was held on the evening of Thursday, 26 June 2025, at St John the Baptist Church in London. The ceremony opened with a video performance featuring Muslim, Christian, and Jewish artists singing together in the presence...
Webinar: Civil Resistance Against the Taliban – Goals, Methods, and Challenges
As part of its ongoing initiatives, the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) hosted a webinar titled “Civil Resistance Against the Taliban: Goals, Methods, and Challenges” on April 27, 2025. The panel featured Dr. Omar Sharifi, anthropologist and professor at the American Uni...
Webinar: Pan-Turkism: Origins, Goals, and Agendas
On Sunday, April 13, the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies hosted a webinar titled “Pan-Turkism: Origins, Objectives, and Agendas.” The discussion brought together scholars, writers, and researchers from Afghanistan, Turkey, and Iran to examine one of the region’s most cont...
Webinar: Nowruz and Politics: From Ritual Appropriation to Identity Reclamation.
Nowruz is not merely a festivity. What appears in the calendar is not just a date. Some moments carry more than numbers; something beyond chronology moves through them. Nowruz is one such moment - a current of memory that, through centuries of dust and blood, has survived what sought to erase it....
