This event took place Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at the University of California, Washington Center.
Felix Kuehn travelled to Afghanistan first some 5 years ago, having spent several years in the Middle East including just short of a year in Yemen, where he first learnt Arabic in 2002. In 2006, he founded AfghanWire together with Alex Strick van Linschoten, an online research and media-monitoring group to give a more prominent voice to local Afghan media. In spring 2010 he published "My Life With the Taliban", for which he was a co-editor, to critical acclaim, and is also co-editor of a translated volume of Taliban poetry (forthcoming). He is the co-author of "Separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda: The Core of Success in Afghanistan" published by the Center on International Cooperation at the New York University and the forthcoming book "An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/al-Qaeda merger in Afghanistan 1970-2010".
Felix holds a degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (BA Arabic and Development Studies), and lives permanently in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
This event was made possible by a grant from the Arca Foundation.
