by Anand Gopal | Sep 1, 2011 | Monitor
TRIPOLI, Libya – One night late last month, in a sweltering apartment deep in the heart of Tripoli, a group of men gathered around the television to watch the evening news. The program was carried on Libya al-Ahrar, a Doha-based news channel beaming into Libya in...
by Anand Gopal | Aug 24, 2011 | Monitor
Kandahar & London An Appeal for Funding (This is a joint post by Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn and Anand Gopal) I wouldn’t normally put something like this up on the blog, but after over a year or so of asking around (without success) we’re trying all...
by Anand Gopal | Jul 18, 2011 | Monitor
As southern Afghanistan was still reeling from the assassination of local heavyweight Ahmed Wali Karzai, gunmen on Sunday struck down Jan Muhammad Khan, one of the most notorious powerbrokers in southern Afghanistan. JMK, as he is known to the Americans, was the...
by Anand Gopal | Jul 1, 2011 | Monitor
After years of rumors of talks with the Taleban, the US is finally meeting a senior Taleban representative face-to-face. In a series of encounters this spring in Germany and Doha, it has been leaked to the press that US officials have met with Tayyeb Agha, a leading...
by Anand Gopal | Feb 17, 2011 | Monitor
Mahalla, Egypt–In the sprawling factories of El-Mahalla el-Kubra, a gritty, industrial town a few hours’ drive north of Cairo, lies what many say is the heart of the Egyptian revolution. “This is our Sidi Bouzid,” says Muhammad Marai, a labor...
