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Mahmud Tarzi Bibliography

Seddiq Rahpoe Tarzi
28 Mar 2012
Notes: This article was presented to the International Conference of commemorating the The 80th Foundation Day of Afghanistan Foreign Ministry and the role of Mahmud Tarzi and Mohammad Wali Darwazi, two former foreign ministers. It wa held on the twenty-third and fourth of August 2008. in the city of Kabul. Read more...

/ Category: Afghanistan /

How hate collides with arrogance

Mir Hussain Mahdavi
12 Feb 2012

A review of “How Iran Controls Afghanistan”, by Fariba Nawa.
Foreigner cultural influences in Afghanistan, especially our neighbors, have been a very important issue in Afghanistan’s contemporary history, but recently are becoming a politically problematic and theoretically ambiguous cultural matter to deal with.

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Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years

20 Sep 2010
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System.[13] It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets.The planet was known by astronomers of ancient times and was associated with the mythology and religious beliefs of many cultures. The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter.[14] When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. (Mars can briefly match Jupiter's brightness at certain points in its orbit.)Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium; it may also have a rocky core of heavier elements. Because of its rapid rotation, Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope. Surrounding the planet is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. There are also at least 63 moons, including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury. Read more...

/ Category: Science, reports /

Myth In service of building Identity and authority

Seddiq Rahpoe Tarzi
6 Sep 2010
Again the Season of putting questions for getting the answers, which end up to other questions, has come.This time I want to tackle the very past history of the place and time- more correct to say pose questions- in which we had roots in and are shrouded in the mist of myth and reality.All we remember is the fact that at the beginning of the twentieth century, especially after the third decades of this century, we looked in the past for the detection of our Identity and we watched ourselves in the large mirror of Aryan. This mirror was a by product of the European Orientalist in 18th century and the19th century in particular Read more...

/ Category: Afghanistan /

Good news on Afghanistan comes with a cup of tea

There's been a barrage of bad news lately from Afghanistan. So I was glad for the chance to discuss "what should be done?" with Greg Mortenson, the author of the best-seller "Three Cups of Tea," who has built more than 130 schools, mostly for girls, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I've traveled with him to some of his schools in Pakistan, and he stopped off in Philadelphia between interviews in New York and Washington. Read more...

Date: 31 Aug 2010 / Author: Trudy Rubin[/xfgiven_writer] / Category: reports /

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