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with Dr. Mejgan Massoumi and Dr. Robert D. Crews, Stanford University

Afghanistan has served as the battleground for "America's longest war" over the course of 20 years. In this event, we will hear from two historians who study Afghanistan to help us contextualize the American withdrawal and the Afghan and American relationship, past and present.

Robert D. Crews is the author of Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015) and  For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2012) and The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2008). His work has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Mejgan Massoumi is an historian and is currently a teaching fellow in the Civil, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) Program at Stanford University. She also obtained her Ph.D. in History in June of 2021 from Stanford University. She holds a Master of City Planning and an undergraduate degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley. Her forthcoming monograph is on the history of radio and the politics of popular culture in Afghanistan, 1960-79. Prior to her graduate studies, she served as the Manager for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. Her forthcoming article titled "Radio in Afghanistan: Resistance through Persianate Literary Cultural Production" will appear in the journal Iranian Studies this year.