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First-person narratives, cultural features, news from Afghanistan and from Hazaras abroad, and advocacy updates.
از درون جامعه و فراتر از آن
روایتهای دست اول، نگاههای فرهنگی، خبرهایی از افغانستان و از هزارههای مقیم خارج از کشور، و بهروزرسانیهای مدافعهگری.
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نوشتههای تازه
The Real Priorities for the Hazara Now
اولویتهای واقعی هزارهها در این برهه
What the community is owed when survival is on the line.
حق این جامعه چیست، آنگاه که بقا در میان است.
Refugee Resettlement Policy and the Hazara: What the Numbers Show
سیاست اسکان مجدد پناهندگان و هزارهها: آنچه ارقام نشان میدهد
The global resettlement quota fell 84 percent in a single year. Four countries made commitments to Afghan refugees after 2021. A country-by-country account of what was promised, what was delivered, and why Hazaras - the most persecuted subgroup - remain invisible in every government's data.
سهمیه جهانی اسکان مجدد در یک سال ۸۴ درصد سقوط کرد. چهار کشور پس از ۲۰۲۱ به پناهندگان افغان تعهد دادند. گزارشی کشور به کشور از آنچه وعده داده شد، آنچه عملی شد، و این که چرا هزارهها - آزاردیدهترین زیرگروه - در ارقام هیچ دولتی دیده نمیشوند.
Building Without a State: Hazara Community Organizations Around the World
ساختن بدون دولت: سازمانهای جامعۀ هزاره در سراسر جهان
Hazaras outside Afghanistan have been without diplomatic representation since 2021. Into that gap, community organizations across Australia, Canada, the UK, Germany, and the US have built settlement support, cultural infrastructure, and political advocacy - a five-country account of what civil society can and cannot do without a state behind it.
هزارههای خارج از افغانستان از سال ۲۰۲۱ بدون نمایندگی دیپلماتیک باقی ماندهاند. در این خلاء، سازمانهای جامعۀ هزاره در آسترالیا، کانادا، بریتانیا، آلمان و ایالات متحده پشتیبانی از اسکان، زیرساخت فرهنگی و مدافعهگری سیاسی ساختهاند - گزارشی پنجکشوری از آنچه جامعۀ مدنی بدون پشتوانۀ دولت میتواند و نمیتواند انجام دهد.
The Kart-e-Se Massacre of 1993: What Happened and Why It Matters
قتلعام کارته سۀ ۱۹۹۳: چه رخ داد و چرا اهمیت دارد
One of the worst atrocities of the Afghan civil war. Almost no one outside Afghanistan knows it happened.
Hazaras Under the Taliban: What Has Happened Since 2021
هزارهها زیر طالبان: آنچه از ۲۰۲۱ رخ داده است
A documented account of what has happened to Afghanistan's Hazara population since the Taliban's return to power in August 2021 - targeted killings, economic exclusion, displacement, and the erasure of civic life.
گزارشی مستند از آنچه بر جمعیت هزارۀ افغانستان از زمان بازگشت طالبان به قدرت در اگست ۲۰۲۱ گذشته است - کشتارهای هدفمند، کنارگذاری اقتصادی، بیجاشدگی، و حذف زندگی مدنی.
Hazara Soldiers in World War I: The Forgotten Regiments of the British Indian Army
سربازان هزاره در جنگ جهانی اول: هنگهای فراموششدۀ ارتش هند بریتانیا
The 106th Hazara Pioneers served on three continents. Almost no one remembers them.
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The Case for Hazara Representation in International Bodies
دلیل ضرورت نمایندگی هزاره در نهادهای بینالمللی
Why Hazara civil society lacks formal standing in the UN system - and what needs to change at the IIMAA, UNHCR, and ECOSOC level.
The Hazara Case at the ICC: What Is Happening and What Is Not
پروندۀ هزاره در دیوان کیفری بینالمللی: چه میگذرد و چه نمیگذرد
The International Criminal Court has an open investigation into Afghanistan and has issued arrest warrants. No one is in custody. The worst crimes against Hazaras fall outside the court's jurisdiction entirely. A plain-language account of where the case stands and what accountability would actually require.
Dr. Sima Samar: Physician, Commissioner, Exile
داکتر سیما ثمر: پزشک، کمیسیونر، تبعیدی
Sima Samar has operated from the center of danger - as a Hazara woman in a state that has treated both categories as targets - and she has kept moving. From Jaghori to Kabul to exile at Tufts, a documented account of her life, the institutions she built, and what her refusal to stop has meant.
A Name For Everyone: The Case For Renaming Afghanistan
نامی برای همه: دلایل تغییر نام افغانستان
The country's name was given by one group. It can be taken back by all of them.
Whose Land Is Afghanistan? A History of the Country's Name
این سرزمین از کیست؟ تاریخچه نام افغانستان
The country's name is not a neutral geographic label. It is a political claim, written into the founding documents of the modern state, that the land belongs to one of the peoples who live on it. This is what that has meant for everyone else.
The Hazara Resistance at Guldara: A Battle That History Forgot
مقاومت هزاره در گلدره: نبردی که تاریخ از یاد برد
The 19th-century Hazara uprisings against Abdur Rahman Khan - one of the most significant and least-covered episodes of Hazara history in any language.
Dambura: The Soul of Hazara Music
دمبوره: روح موسیقی هزاره
A deep profile of the dambura - the two-stringed lute at the center of Hazara musical tradition - covering its construction, repertoire, the players who defined it, and its survival.
Why Persecution Fragments a People Instead of Uniting Them
چرا آزار و اذیت یک ملت را پارهپاره میکند نه متحد
The counter-intuitive truth about communities under sustained threat: persecution does not forge unity. It contracts trust to the smallest verifiable circle. A look at why this happens, what it has done to Hazaras, and why naming it matters more than denying it.
Suspicion Travels With the Language and the Food: How Trust Patterns Are Inherited
سوءظن همراه با زبان و خوراک سفر میکند: چگونه الگوهای اعتماد به ارث میرسد
Suspicion was protective for the generation that lived through displacement and loss. It does not switch off when the danger recedes - and it gets passed down to children and grandchildren who never lived through the original event. An honest look at how trust patterns travel between generations, and what that means for community-building today.
The Lines Inside the Line: Hazara Sub-Groups, Internal Division, and the Question of Unity
خطوط درون خط: خردهگروههای هزاره، تقسیم درونی، و پرسش وحدت
An honest look at the regional and tribal sub-identities within the Hazara people, the historical and sociological reasons internal divisions persist, and what unity would actually require.
Building What We Don't Have: A Strategy for a Hazara Unifying Institution
ساختن آنچه نداریم: راهبردی برای یک نهاد وحدتبخش هزاره
An honest look at what a unifying Hazara institution would need to do, why earlier attempts fractured, and what could realistically be built over the next decade.
How the Hazara Became Shi'a: Faith, Conversion, and the Safavid Connection
چگونه هزاره شیعه شد: ایمان، گرویدن، و پیوند صفوی
The contested, centuries-long process by which Hazara communities adopted Twelver Shi'a Islam, and how that religious identity was later weaponized against them.
Hazara Scientists: A First Record of Researchers in International Academia
دانشمندان هزاره: نخستین سیاههای از پژوهشگران در نهادهای علمی بینالمللی
An opening entry, deliberately partial, toward a record of Hazara scholars and scientists working at universities and research institutions abroad. One verified profile, with an open invitation for the community to add more.
The Oral Epic Tradition: Hazara Storytelling Before It Was Written Down
سنت حماسی شفاهی: داستانسرایی هزاره پیش از آنکه نوشته شود
The folk tales, epic cycles, proverbs, and oral poetry of the Hazara people. What forms they took, who carried them, and what is being done to preserve them.
What Genocide Recognition Actually Means: A Plain-Language Guide
بهرسمیتشناسی نسلکشی بهراستی چه معنایی دارد: راهنمایی به زبان ساده
What recognition involves in legal and political terms, what it does and does not achieve, and where the Hazara case currently stands in that landscape.
Hazara Food: A Guide to the Flavors Nobody Writes About
خوراک هزاره: راهنمایی برای طعمهایی که کسی دربارهشان نمینویسد
A serious look at Hazara culinary tradition: the dishes, the ingredients, the seasonal and ceremonial food culture, and what makes it distinctly Hazara.
Hazara Embroidery: Pattern, Color, and the Women Who Made Them
سوزندوزی هزاره: نقش، رنگ، و زنانی که آن را ساختند
The geometric embroidery traditions of Hazara women: the stitches, the garments, the regional variations, and the conditions under which the practice now survives.
Bamiyan Before the Buddhas: What the Valley Looked Like at Its Peak
بامیان پیش از بتها: درّه در اوج خود چگونه به نظر میرسید
Reconstructing Bamiyan as a Silk Road hub and Buddhist center long before the Taliban era - the archaeology, the Kushan Empire, and what the valley looked like at its height.
Who Are the Hazara? Everything You Need to Know
هزارهها کیستند؟ هر آنچه باید بدانید
A comprehensive introduction to the Hazara people - their history, culture, language, global community, and resilience.
The Network Is the Opportunity
شبکه همان فرصت است
First-generation professionals build their networks from scratch. Here is why that network may be the most important thing you build - and how to start.
Hazaragi: A Language Under Threat
هزارگی: زبانی در معرض خطر
Spoken by millions across three continents, Hazaragi carries a history that most of the world has never heard. A language under pressure - and the people working to preserve it.
The Buddhas of Bamiyan: What Was Lost and What Remains
بتهای بامیان: چه از دست رفت و چه میماند
Two thousand years of cultural history, destroyed in two days. The story of the Bamiyan Buddhas - and why their loss belongs to the Hazara people.
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هزاره یونایتد نوشتههایی را که از سوی جامعه و برای جامعه نوشته شدهاند منتشر میکند. روایتهای شخصی از بیجاشدگی، مهاجرت و تعلق؛ جستارهای فرهنگی دربارۀ زبان، سنت و هویت؛ پژوهشهای تاریخی؛ و تجربۀ ساختن زندگی در خارج از افغانستان را خوشآمد میگوییم. اگر چیزی برای گفتن دارید که ارزش گفته شدن دارد، ما میخواهیم آن را بخوانیم.
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