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Television and the Afghan Culture Wars Hank Rubin and deeply empatheticPortrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post 9 11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian