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...

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...

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...

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....

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, AISS hosted the second day of 12th the Herat Security Dialogue in Madrid, Spain, under the theme “Afghanistan: Reviving Hope; Synergetic Efforts.” The discussions continued with the participation of experts, politicians, diplomats, human rights advocates...