{"id":28154,"date":"2010-10-13T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=28154"},"modified":"2013-12-02T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:42:34","slug":"afghan-star-another-alternative-image-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/13\/afghan-star-another-alternative-image-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Star: Another Alternative Image of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the comments thread to a recent post presenting an image of Afghanistan<\/a> that doesn’t focus on war, violence, and misery, a Reader by the name of “S” linked to a documentary called Afghan Star<\/a>.\u00a0 The film documents an American Idol-style competition, one that places contestants at risk of violence, but also engenders intense devotion from some Afghanis.\u00a0 It reveals another side of Afghanistan that Americans typically do not see.<\/p>\n

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The trailer:<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Myaisha for catching the comment!<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the comments thread to a recent post presenting an image of Afghanistan that doesn’t focus on war, violence, and misery, a Reader by the name of “S” linked to a documentary called Afghan Star.\u00a0 The film documents an American Idol-style competition, one that places contestants at risk of violence, but also engenders intense devotion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,129,1763,42],"class_list":["post-28154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-media","tag-nation-afghanistan","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28154"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59648,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28154\/revisions\/59648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}