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Center for Global Affairs
Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir
Featuring: The Honorable Zahir Tanin, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UN
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On Thursday, April 12, 2007, New York University's Center for Global Affairs hosted The Honorable Zahir Tanin, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Nations as part of its ongoing public forum 'Global Leaders: Conversatios with Alon Ben-Meir.' In this engaging and provocative series, Alon Ben-Meir, professor of international relations, journalist and author, hosts leaders from around the world in conversations that probe critical global issues and the policies our guests are designing to address them. Previous guests have included the Ambassadors of Syria and Egypt to the United States, among other distinguished dignitaries.
The evening’s conversation was probing and insightful as Professor Ben-Meir and Ambassador Tanin challenged common mis/understandings that the ‘War on Terror,’ regional conflict, the rise of narco-trafficking, the role of the international community, and the resurgence of the Taliban have had on the future of a stable Afghanistan.
Prior to his appointment as Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, Mr. Tanin was an Editor of BBC World Service Persian/Pashto Section in Afghanistan in 2003-2006 and Afghanistan and Central Asia, Persian Section, in 2001-2003. Before that, he worked as Senior Producer (2000 to 2001) and Producer (1995 to 2000).
Having started his career in 1980 as a journalist in Kabul, Mr. Tanin came to BBC from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Research Fellow at the International Relations Department in 1994 to 1995. Prior to that, he was a freelance writer in France (1992-1993) and Editor-in-Chief of Afkbar-e-Haftah and Sabawoon Magazine. Mr. Tanin is co-author of The Communist Regime in Afghanistan, a comprehensive study of the political and social changes in Afghanistan from 1978 to 1992, and authored Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century. He has also produced a 29-part programmed entitled The Oral History of Afghanistan in the 20th Century, broadcast by the BBC.
The evening embodied the Center for Global Affairs’ commitment to create a community of global citizens dedicated to changing the world.