Afghan EFL lecturers’ beliefs about autonomous language learning by Hashmatullah Tareen

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Strategies of Refugee Children in Response to Ethnic Categorization and Social Exclusion in Konya by Fuat Güllüpınar, Gamze Kaçar Tunç

“…In this paper, we focus on how refugee children from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan resettled in Konya, Turkey, use coping strategies in response to the ethnic categorization and exclusion policies of the local population. …”
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Research Funding and Passport Hierarchies: Power Asymmetries in Multi-Sited Ethnographies in Migration Studies by Hannah Pool

“…Drawing on ethnographic research conducted along migration trajectories linking Afghanistan to Germany in Iran, Turkey, Greece and the so-called Balkan route between 2018 and 2022, the article critically engages with two issues that contribute to the enactment of asymmetrical power relations between migrants and researchers: First, it demonstrates how passport hierarchies determine researchers’ very capacity to conduct multi-sited research and to follow their research interlocutors across borders, privileging those with passports that allow visa-free entry to multiple countries. …”
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Development and psychometric validation of the digital socialization scale by Khubaib Khalid, Noman Aftab, Maaz Ahmed, Zeba Khan, Maria Muzaffar Janjua

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A Critique on the Book Myths of Ancient Bactria and Margiana on its Seals and Amulets by Hassan Basafa, Mohammadsadegh Davari

“…The book Myths of Ancient Bactria and Margiana on its Seals and Amulets is basically a catalog of seals and amulets of BMAC culture, which was obtained during illegal excavations and was auctioned in the antique market of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. All of these works have been documented by the author of the book, Sarianidi, one of the leading Russian archaeologists, and presented in English, along with a long article. …”
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Investigating and analyzing the factors and Drivers affecting the convergence and national cohesion (Case study: Baloch people in southeastern country) by abas Jahan Abadian, Yaser kahrazeh, Parviz Reza Mirlotfi

“…Additionally, the study recognizes the influence of regional political tensions, historical economic ties with neighboring countries, and the prevalence of border markets with Afghanistan and Pakistan as significant factors that shape convergence, divergence, and national cohesion among the Baloch people in the Sistan and Baluchestan province in the southeast of the country.…”
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Military Interventions As Omitted Variable Of Inversed Democratic Peace: An Empirical Evidence by Srđan Korać, Nenad Stekić

“…To test this so-called “inversed democratic peace” thesis based on an argument that an ongoing war is likely to lead to democratisation, we focus our analysis on the US interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and FR Yugoslavia (Kosovo). …”
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International conflicts in the mirror of constructive journalism: media geographical research by Tamara S. Yakova

“…The empirical basis of the study was Google Trends statistics and data obtained as a result of processing publications of influential global mass media devoted to international conflicts and crises, interest in which was shown by Internet audiences of countries of the world (the Arab-Israeli conflict, the conflict in Afghanistan, the US-Iran conflict, the Taiwan crisis). …”
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A Robust Approach for Speaker Identification Using Dialect Information by Shahid Munir Shah, Muhammad Moinuddin, Rizwan Ahmed Khan

“…The study is conducted on the Pashto language, and the voice data samples are collected from native Pashto speakers of specific regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan where Pashto is spoken with different dialectal variations. …”
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New Labour, New Imperialism? Blairite Foreign Policy since 1997 by Keith Dixon

“…Ce nouveau positionnement en politique étrangère britannique a été accompagné par des changements dans l’environnement idéologique : les notions d’impérialisme « libéral » ou « post-moderne » ont été mises en avant pour justifier les changements de régime dans le monde pré-moderne d’Irak ou d’Afghanistan. En ce sens, c’est le groupe blairiste à la tête du parti travailliste britannique qui a fourni l’essentiel de la justification intellectuelle de l’interventionnisme militaire de l’administration de George Bush, et cela  bien avant les attaques du 11 septembre.…”
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Analysis of Asia-1 foot-and-mouth disease global spread in 1999–2019 by S. A. Kunikov, S. N. Fomina

“…The virus of this type is most often reported in such Asian countries as Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Iran, Myanmar, from where it can spread to FMD free countries. …”
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Digital learning initiatives forging inclusive education in post-conflict nations by Siddiqullah Barikzai, Vijayakumar Bharathi S, Arif Perdana

“…Efforts have been made to promote digital learning and improve access to higher education for disadvantaged groups, which could expand educational opportunities and foster diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly among girls in Afghanistan. Our research employed an interpretive field approach, conducting interviews with 102 participants across 12 Afghan universities—eight public and four privates—to examine the challenges and opportunities associated with digital learning initiatives and inclusive education in a post-conflict setting. …”
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Examining Psychological Elements in the Works of Khaled Hosseini by Shaghayegh Tamizifar, Mohammad Ebrahim Irajpour, Zahra Aghababaii

“…Moreover, Hosseini's works offer profound insights into the culture, history, and social norms of Afghanistan. By evoking emotions ranging from the anguish of betrayal to the joy of connection, his writing fosters empathy for the characters, setting his prose apart from other literary works. …”
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Transboundary hydropolitical conflicts and their impact on river morphology and environmental degradation in the Hirmand Basin, West Asia by Atefe Arfa, Seyed Ali Ayyoubzadeh, Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Hojjat Mianabadi

“…Abstract The Hirmand Transboundary River Basin (HTRB), shared by Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, is a hydrologically critical and politically sensitive region. …”
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The Role of Zakat in Poverty Alleviation and Farmer Welfare; the Theoretical Review by Abdul Wahid Mongkito, Samdin Samdin

“…Discussions regarding the role of zakat in alleviating poverty and welfare are generally carried out in Indonesia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tanzania, Brunei Darussalam, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. …”
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Effective Stance in Conservative Newspaper Opinion Articles on Irregular Immigration and Refugee Humanitarian Crises by Marta Carretero, Elena Domínguez Romero

“…The words are evenly distributed, with each newspaper contributing 30,000 words in articles pertaining to three humanitarian crises involving refugees: Syria (2015), Afghanistan (2021), and Ukraine (2022-2023), and 30,000 words relating to articles on irregular immigration coinciding in time with each of the three refugee crises. …”
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Endovascular Embolisation of Visceral Artery Pseudoaneurysms by Yasir Jamil Khattak, Tariq Alam, Rana Hamid Shoaib, Raza Sayani, Tanveer-ul Haq, Muhammad Awais

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Traditional Donors in Information and Communi- cation Sector Development Assistance by Z. E. Gomboin

“…As for the United States development assistance, it is primarily distributed to those states where the US and its allies have imposed regime change (Iraq and Afghanistan) or, to a lesser extent, to their strategic partners, such as Egypt. …”
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Challenging Our Assumptions: Listening to Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Voices About Career Aspirations by Angela Warner, Dahlia Herring, Lisa E. Baranik, Janice Coles

“…We conducted three focus groups and one interview with 26 immigrant and refugee women from Afghanistan, Congo-Brazzaville, the Dominican Republic, Iraq, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine. …”
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Pakistan-Russia Relations within the Framework of the SCO: A Regional Analysis by Hira Yaqoob, Abeeda Qureshi

“…Pakistan’s membership in the SCO coincided with important regional developments, including the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the resurgence of regional terrorism, increased US-China competition, India’s strengthening ties with the U.S., the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the hesitancy of Western countries to engage with Russia. …”
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