“Mataloona and Mizh”: Understanding the Pukhtun People on September 23, 2020Some years ago while working on an academic project with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, I noticed a small book on the shelf. I began leafing through it and was fascinated with what I found. It was an old worn copy of Ahmed’s book Mataloona: Pukhto Proverbs that, I […]