Obaidullah Baheer has learned to shuttle between the two Afghanistans. They are now staring at each other face to face
to congratulate the Taliban on their glorious victory. As I watched him praise the jihadists, my phone buzzed with panicked messages from friends who were terrified that Taliban fighters would kill them in their homes.A daily email with the best of our journalismI was brought up to hate the West and everything it stood for. My grandfather, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was one of Afghanistan’s most prominent.
I was 11 when the 9/11 attacks happened, and, like most people around me, I celebrated them. We regarded the victims as enemies of the Muslim world. In the years that followed, my childish tribalism turned into something deeper and more personal. My grandfather fought against the American occupation of Afghanistan. Then my father was arrested at gunpoint in front of me and taken to one of the’s torture sites.
The big shift came in 2008 when I got involved in the movement to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza. I began interacting online with activists from all over the world and for the first time I was speaking to Westerners, Christians and even atheists. That was unnerving to start with – I felt defensive and angry at how little they understood my culture and religion. I had grown up thinking that non-believers befriended you only to convert you.
I enjoyed the course – one of my favourite lecturers was an Israeli academic. During one of our seminars she remarked that I reminded her of a student she’d once taught in London who turned out to be the son of a king. She asked me to tell my story. The class was stunned by what they heard.moved back to Afghanistan in 2018 and got a job lecturing in peace studies at a university. I also advised the government on development projects, such as building hospitals.
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