Farrukh Husain

Farrukh Husain is a lawyer as well as author of Afghanistan in the Age of Empires (2018) covering the first Anglo-Afghan war; he has worked as a history researcher for academics and William Dalrymple.

Non-Fiction Reviews
“Afghan Village Voices stories from a tribal community” by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper
8 May 202117 August 2021
As difficult as it may be now to imagine it, there was an Afghanistan at peace before the “forever wars” which now consume it. Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper’s research among Piruzai Durrani Pashtun of Northern Afghanistan in the 1970s is a record of that other not-in-the-news Afghanistan.
Read More “Afghan Village Voices stories from a tribal community” by Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper
Non-Fiction Reviews
“Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj” by Michael Christopher Low
12 January 2021
The Hijaz, that part of the Arabian Peninsula which contains the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, was long subject to imperialism, but not of Western variety: it was instead subject to the Ottomans. Although nominally under Ottoman suzerainty for centuries, it was ironically 19th-century British imperialism that forced Istanbul to attempt to consolidate its…
Read More “Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj” by Michael Christopher Low

Sign up to the ARB Newsletter

Sign up to the ARB Newsletter