About Joshua
While living in Kazakhstan in 2003, Joshua began a torrid love affair with Central Asia that hasn’t yet petered out. In real life he’s spent the vast majority of his adult life doing defense and intelligence consulting.
In addition to writing for Registan.net, Joshua is a columnist for PBS Need to Know and a contributing editor for Current Intelligence, a journal of culture and politics.
Joshua is a regular contributor to other national and international publications, where he discusses energy policy, military policy, and the cultural components of warfare. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, The Columbia Journalism Review, and World Politics Review.
Joshua is: a native speaker of English, decent at French, knows just enough street Russian to get around a market and the mashrutkas, and is learning Farsi at an abysmal pace when not consumed with work or writing.
Nothing Joshua writes here in any way reflects upon his current, past, or future employers or their clients, nor is it in any way indicative of their views, policies, or ideas.
In 2006 Joshua was named, among others, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
He can be reached via email: joshua [dot] foust [at] gmail [dot] com.
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Hi,
I’m looking for any information about Uzbek refugies or people, who got assulym statuse abroad. Can you please help me on this?
thank you
Leah
To Leah: I might help with ur request if you tell me why you need this info
Joshua! I was really surprized that people in UK read Aitmatov. He is one of my favourite writers and I have read “One day lasts…” twice (of course, I am from Kirgisistan : ) )
hi Josh,
what truly is the best way to get a copy of the FCR? i’m a reporter in pakistan and i can’t seem to track one down. have you seen a copy? i notice you said it’s not accessible online and only in a few national libraries.
halley (ntoosi@ap.org)
Josh – can you give your readers a bit more detail about what you plan to _do_ in Afghanistan? I might be more inclined to chip in if there was some clear sense of what you want to accomplish and, more importantly, how you plan to accomplish it. It’s not an easy country to get around in safely, for obvious reasons. If you’re an ‘embed’ it can be difficult to get outside the military’s cordone to talk to Afghan people, but then you have no security. Do you have trusted contacts you plan to hook up with — and I mean _trusted_ contacts, not friends of friends of friends of some guy named Abdul in Kabul. What’s your plan, dude?
Josh – can you give your readers a bit more detail about what you plan to _do_ in Afghanistan? I might be more inclined to chip in if there was some clear sense of what you want to accomplish and, more importantly, how you plan to accomplish it. It’s not an easy country to get around in safely, for obvious reasons. If you’re an ‘embed’ it can be difficult to get outside the military’s cordone to talk to Afghan people, but then you have no security. Do you have trusted contacts you plan to hook up with — and I mean _trusted_ contacts, not friends of friends of friends of some guy named Ali in Kabul. What’s your plan, dude?
Yeah Rodger,
Glad to see you get your “boots’ on the ground in theatre so you can actually translate the experience into sound words instead of diffusing the words of people who have been there and tried to relate them without being shot down by the educated mind. Peace out.Return home.
Hello Joshua;
last spring i had did a short term contract in afghanistan and would be very intrested in the kalagash and the citral valley. richard strands work has me enthralled. as stated above, what are your plans? what kind of time frame are you concidering??
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