A searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate.
Ahmad Shuja Jamal is a lawyer, policy researcher and former Afghan senior civil servant. He was director-general for international relations and regional cooperation at Kabul's National Security Council (2019-21), where he also served as director for peace and civilian protection. Formerly a researcher for Human Rights Watch, he was also director for development at the American University of Afghanistan. After leaving Afghanistan, he was head of policy, advocacy and communications at the Jesuit Refugee Service (Australia) and a special advisor at the Refugee Council of Australia, and is currently a lawyer at a top-tier Australian firm.
William Maley is Emeritus Professor of Diplomacy at Australian National University, and the author of many books on Afghan politics and history.
