
Essay · 9 min · EN
Pashtuns and Jews: The Roots of a Myth
Tribal names, inherited customs and genetic evidence behind the enduring story of Afghanistan’s lost tribes of Israel.
Writing
Essays, field notes and research by Noam Backner on China, Inner Asia, Buddhism, the Silk Roads, food, agriculture and the lived experience of place.

Essay · 9 min · EN
Tribal names, inherited customs and genetic evidence behind the enduring story of Afghanistan’s lost tribes of Israel.

Essay · 8 min · EN
Behind Disney’s villain stands an Abbasid statesman whose family carried a Buddhist intellectual inheritance from Balkh to Baghdad.