By Ikram.Afzali Saturday, January 30, 2010: Today, Professor Lia Gladstone and her students at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) organized the first-ever performance by AUAF students. The show included a number of performances including a play, monologues, poems, and story-telling. The performances covered a range of issues the Afghan society is faced with including lack [...] [...more]
By: Maryam Hotaki The service learning project, on which the UNI 101 classes had been working on, finally ended successfully. The project was to help out a camp near Qargha; it was a place where people had many hygienic problems. Therefore, they wanted to organize some hygiene kits for those people. In order to get funds, [...] [...more]
By: Siddique Ahmed Most Afghans wouldn’t know what it means when a Nuristani wood-carved chair has its arms carved with a horse head shape facing forward or leftward. The students at the wood carving foundation department at the “Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture,” a project run by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation (TMF, http://www.turquoisemountain.org) know exactly [...] [...more]
By: Fazal Ahmad Rahel Though Afghan and international officials often refer to rule of law development as a high priority, the necessary measures are not being treated with urgency, except for police training. In the justice sector, no strategy has been agreed upon for the reform and rebuilding process. The rule of law in Afghanistan is fragile, [...] [...more]
By Nasria Pashtun A couple of weeks ago, an email received by a number of female students at AUAF states the following: – On Sat, 2/14/09, jawid mohammad <mohdjaweed123@gmail.com> wrote: From: jawid mohammad <mohdjaweed123@gmail.com> Subject: Hello xxxxx xxxxxx To: xxxxx@xxxxxxx.com Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 2:51 PM Dear xxxxx I am sorry to tell you that I know one of your secret which [...] [...more]
AUAF Lecturer in law and legal studies, Ms. Zuhra Bahman was among several young Afghan leaders to be interviewed by CNN in regard to U.S. President Obama’s first 100 Days in office. “When Obama took office, it was the time for me to be hopeful for the future. It was a time that we could [...] [...more]
by Nahid Popal Students from David Shaw’s University 101 class have recently been assigned a new project: Service learning. Many of you probably don’t know what service learning is, Dictionary.com defines it as, “the incorporation of community service within an educational system, esp. as a graduation requirement.” Shaw’s day students and evening students met together on April 14th [...] [...more]
by Jafar Kazemiyan Afghanistan has been altered to a non-developed country through two decades of war that has brought nothing except poverty, illiteracy, immigration, and bias for its people. In such a situation, Afghanistan’s most crucial need has been a university with high international standards. The American University of Afghanistan seemed to be the best response [...] [...more]
by Munir Ahmad A group of the University Success 101 students, with close collaboration of the University and student government, have unanimously agreed to undertake a service project to serve Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and families in the capital city of Kabul. The group is currently striving hard to attract donor funds to help the project implementation [...] [...more]
by Siddique Ahmed Nemat Students at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) have received ten acoustic guitars worth around 3000US$, which have been donated by the California based non-profit organization “Guitars in the Classroom” (www.guitarsintheclassroom.org). Mr. Oliver Mains, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and adviser of the AUAF music club confirmed the arrival of the instruments [...] [...more]
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