Felix Kuehn is the co-editor of My Life with the Taliban, the autobiography of the former Taliban envoy to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef (Hurst, 2010); co-author of An enemy we created: The myth of the Taliban/Al-Qaeda merger, 1970–2010 (Hurst, 2012); co-editor of Poetry of the Taliban (Hurst 2012), a volume of poetry written by Taliban members; and co-editor of The Taliban Reader (Hurst, forthcoming). Kuehn holds a degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and will defend his PhD thesis submitted to King’s College London Department of War Studies later in 2018.

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Accord Issue 27: Afghanistan

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