Professor Juan Cole explains the rise of the Taliban and the rapid fall of the American supported Afghanistan government in this conversation with Professor Adnan Husain. Professor Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan as well as the editor of Informed Comment (juancole.com).
Professor Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian and is chairman of the religion department at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario Canada. He also hosts The Guerrilla Podcast.