Rebuilding War-Torn Afghanistan: Is The News All Bad?
Recent Visitor to Afghanistan to Speak at Simmons College

BOSTON (November 21, 2002) - Longtime Afghanistan expert Thomas Barfield, who has just returned from a fact-finding visit to that country, will discuss whether there is an "up side" to the prevailing negative news about the rebuilding of war-torn Afghanistan in a lecture Dec. 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Simmons College Third Floor Conference Center, 300 The Fenway. The lecture, "Afghanistan: Reconstruction or Chaos," is free and open to the public.

Dr. Barfield, who is Boston University's Anthropology Department chairman, will be joined by Hassan Abbas, Harvard Law and Fletcher School fellow. Abbas is a former assistant police superintendent in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province adjacent to Afghanistan and will discuss the potentially explosive situation there.

Ambassador Charles Dunbar, the Simmons College Warburg Professor in International Relations, who was in charge of the American Embassy in Afghanistan in Kabul during the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan, will moderate the discussion.

The Warburg program is named for Joan Warburg of Greenwich, CT, a 1945 Simmons College graduate who established the Warburg Chair in International Relations with her husband, James P. Warburg.

Note to reporters: contact Katie Fiermonti in the public relations office at 617-521-2369 if you'd like to cover the lecture. Simmons College is wheelchair accessible.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized, small, private, predominantly women's university in the heart of Boston. It has undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men.

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