My book Afghanistan in 2028 is now available on Amazon

 I am proud to announce the release of my latest book, Afghanistan 2028, now available on Amazon Kindle. Below, I share the Author’s Note, detailing the vision and personal journey that led me to write this story.

Why I Wrote This Book The Story Behind the Story
It began with a simple question.
At a neighborhood coffee shop, a man about my age — a college professor named Jak — leaned across the table during our conversation and asked: "Why does Afghanistan keep falling, state after state?"
I drove home that evening turning the question over in my mind. So much has already been written about Afghanistan's past — its wars, its wounds, its endless postmortems. So I decided to do something different: instead of looking backward, I would write a proposal for the future. A roadmap to break the cycle.
And I would tell it not as a dry academic lecture, but as a Socratic dialogue.
Who am I to write it?
I was born in Afghanistan and left following the Soviet invasion in 1983. Since then, I have written extensively on Afghan and global affairs, with work published in major outlets including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Huffington Post, NPR, The National Interest, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Stars and Stripes, The Orange County Register, and Forward, among others.
At the heart of this book is Ustad Massood, a professor at Kabul University, who offers a vision for Afghanistan's future. Rather than retreating into abstraction, I take the reader directly into his classroom — where students don't just listen, they push back, question, and wrestle with ideas. The dialogue is the argument. The reader is not a passive observer but a participant in the search for answers.