is a journalist and writer with a postgraduate degree in politics from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work focuses on war, historical memory, and post-conflict transitions, with a particular emphasis on the implications of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan as well as in the wider South and Central Asia region.
A former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan says that talking with the Taliban is necessary, but cautions that a diplomatic return to Kabul would be a “gift” that shouldn’t be given freely.
Her work has been published in The Diplomat, New Lines Magazine, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and translated into Russian, Uzbek, and Bosnian. It has also been widely republished across South Asian media. Her reporting on war and displacement has been cited in studies by universities and international organizations, including the Asia Foundation and Cambridge University Press, and she has participated in key debates on U.S. policy, including discussions on the U.S. war in Afghanistan at the Wilson Center and European platforms such as Forum 2000, Open Society, and One World.
