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Aug 2021
1h 26m

Another empire falls in Afghanistan w/ S...

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
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Shah Mahmoud Hanifi teaches history at James Madison University and is the author of Connecting Histories in Afghanistan (2011)

 

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