On the twentieth anniversary of the Afghan war, journalist, author and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein will analyse the impact of the longest US-led conflict in history in this online lecture. What’s been its impact on Afghan civilians, refugees, and the broader global community, and how does Australia’s military role in the war fit into Afghanistan’s current trajectory? Loewenstein will be joined by artist Khadim Ali, known for his works poetically exploring the experience of displaced people across the globe. A member of the persecuted Hazara ethnic minority, he is the third generation of his family to be exiled from his homeland of Afghanistan.
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Antony Loewenstein is a journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, and many others. His latest book is Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. He’s the author of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe; writer and co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and co-director of an Al-Jazeera English-language film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other best-selling books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom. He is co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and a contributor to For God’s Sake. He’s working on a major journalistic and art project around the twentieth anniversary of the Afghan war. He’s visited Afghanistan twice in the last decade to report on the war.
Khadim Ali 'Invisible Border I' 2020.
