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Robert Crews

Associate professor of history and director of the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. He’s the author of several books, mostly recently, Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation. He’s also co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. His recent article for The New York Times is headlined “The Necessity of an Afghan Resettlement Program in the U.S.” Another piece for Foreign Policy magazine is titled “America’s Afghan Refugee Crisis.”

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