Wazhmah Osman on Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film

How can we tell a story that is ours but also belongs to millions of others? How can documentary film and engaged scholarship portray the realities of war?

In episode 22 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker Wazhmah Osman about the politics of memoir, what the trauma of war does to archival research, and Wazhmah's critically acclaimed documentary film, Postcards from Tora Bora, which recounts Wazhmah's return to her childhood home of Kabul, Afghanistan nearly 20 years after her family fled Cold War violence.

Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/22-wazhmah-osman