"... The book is not yet another book on Afghanistan, it is a monument in the bibliography of the history of this country..."

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"... le carnet de route d'un érudit aventurier qui rappellerait les Choses vues de Victor Hugo, au prix d'une incroyable traversée des terres d'Islam."

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Afghanistan, une nation meurtrie. Avec Michael Barry, David Fox, Jean-Pierre Perrin et Nadia Nadim

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"... Le Cri afghan can be read like a novel and more particularly like a thriller explaining, with innumerable precisions and informations, the role of Pakistan in the Afghan tragedy but also that of the complacent witnesses who watch the agony of a people. ... »

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Michael Barry draws the lessons of twenty years of war in Afghanistan. For him, the Taliban have not changed, at most they have become more discreet so as not to ruffle the international sponsors on whom the survival of their regime depends. Whatever their tendency, be they pragmatists or diehards, they have only one aim: the implementation of the Sharia. But unlike Daesh which serves them in some ways as a foil, they are not seeking to build a caliphate but an Islamised version of socialism in one country. Their fiefdom is limited to Afghanistan, with possible overspill into neighbouring countries. Faced with an enemy ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their faith, the Americans could only realise the failure of their model on all levels. Worse: by leaving the way clear for the Taliban and by ridding Pakistan of a regime susceptible of allying itself with India, they pushed Islamabad into the arms of China which needed nothing more to strengthen its foothold in south Asia.

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Que de violence à l'égard des femmes !

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« Si la réflexion de Michael Barry est, en définitive, pessimiste, bouleversante et grave, il veut croire avec les Afghans que demeurent à travers la poésie des espaces de liberté et d'espoir. »

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Why we must stand up for Afghan women

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Le mal afghan décrypté par un fin connaisseur

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"... this book is not just the result of his knowledge. It mixes his science with personal memories of trips started in 1965, angry outbursts and political comments ... "

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"The tireless and courageous humanitarian activist that is Mike Barry does not admit the war is over. He argues passionately that the cause of women is to the 21st century what the cause of enslaved Black people was to the 19th century, and that this combat cannot be over simply because the Americans lost their war."

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Réflexion sur le retrait américain d'Afghanistan et à l’émiettement du monde. Quelles en sont les conséquences politiques, mais aussi philosophiques ? Invités : Michael Barry et Solène Chalvon-Fioriti.

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L'Afghanistan est souvent présenté comme le "Vietnam de l'URSS". De 1979 à 1989, les forces soviétiques et les rebelles afghans s'enfoncent dans une guerre longue d'une décennie. Invités : Michael Barry et Jean-Pierre Perrin.