Pashtun Posts

This is my attempt to organize my blog for those coming to my blog for particular reasons. If you're someone looking to find something on Pashto/Pashtuns, then I hope the following might be helpful for you. If you're looking, instead, for something Islam-related, please click here. My gender-focused posts can be found here.

Academic/Research

• A List of Pashtun Women Bloggers (still looking for more - your support is appreciated!)
• Funeral Rituals in the Pashtun Society 
• Gender Performance in Pashto Music Videos: An Outline 
• Gender Empowerment and Social Networks among Pashtuns
• Literature on Pashtunwali, Women, and Honor
• Pashtun Nationalism Online - Part I: Introduction
  
• Pashtun Nationalism - Part II: Bibliography
• Pashtun Nationalism - Part III: an Outline
• Research Ideas, Part I: Online Pashtun Communities

Music 

• Ay Zama Watana (song, script)
• Gender Performance in Pashto Music Videos: An Outline 
• Pashto Song: Mula Jan Wayi Azal ke (Ghani Bab and Sardar Ali Takar, English translation of the poetry)
• Pashto Song: Za Pekhawrai yam ta Swatai ye (lyrics to the song)  
• This Is What's Wrong with Pashto Music Today

Pashto

• SAHAR Magazine: An online Pashtun magazine
• The "sh" and "kh" in Pashto: On Pashto Dialects
• Pashto Instructors Sought  
• Ta Laare Da Bal Cha Shwe
• The Difference between "Pathan" and "Pashtun"

Poetry

• Dear Lord of the Oppressed
• Longing for Swat
• My Heart Bleeds Pashto 
• Ode to the Pashtun Daughter
• Ta Laare Da Bal Cha Shwe

Social/Society

• A Clarion for Pashtuns
• Arranged Marriage 101 
• Child Disability Project - Chand Welfare Foundation (headed by a Pashtun woman)
• Dear Samar Minallah 
• Exposing the Flogging-Video: Bad Idea?
• Funeral Rituals in the Pashtun Society
• Ghazala Javed Killed - RIP
• International Pashto Day, June 21st
• Let's Write Our History Ourselves!
• Marriage among the Pashtun Diaspora in the West
• On the Genocide of Pashtuns (let's not get all political here, please. I wrote this ages ago, AND I still believe that what we went through was an actual genocide. Otherwise, define "genocide.")
• Pashtun  Girls, their Pictures Online, and the Lack of Respect for Their Privacy 
• Pashtun Women's Problems in the West 
• Psssst - Hi, people are dying in Swat, Bajaur, and Balochistan! (a little history about the Taliban and on what went on in Swat between 2005 and 2009
• Pukhtun Hospitality  
• Pukhtun Men, Double Standard, and Respect for Pukhtun Women
• Regretted. Tortured. Empower: on the birth of girls in a Pakistani society
• The Roshni Centre for Women 
• The Women of Swat Finally Speak  
• Women, Rape, and Pashtuns
• Pashtun Wedding Ceremonies

History (specifically: Pashtun Leaders)

• Ghani Khan, Philosopher, Poet, Artist
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Non-Violent soldier of Islam 
• Khushal Khan Khattak, the Pashtun Warrior-Poet
• Malalai of Maiwand
• Samar Minallah
  

Personal

• Back from Swat (summer 2011)
• Childhood Memoirs
• Joke: Dear Syed Abby
• Kashmala Singing and Telling Spooky Stories 
• My Experience in Online Pashtun Communities
• My Wonderful, Beautiful Mother

Miscellaneous

• On Writing a Novel and Telling a Story: My response to (many) Pashtuns' negative reaction to The Kite Runner 
• Pashtuns and The Kite Runner
• Pictures from Swat - a Typical Pukhtun home
• Pictures from Swat - the Rivers of Swat