Talk on 'The Fall of Kabul, August 2021 – What happened, why, and why it matters' with Dr Sir Laurie Bristow

Cambridge Central Asia Forum invites you to a talk by 

Dr Sir Laurie Bristow, President, Hughes Hall College 

on

'The Fall of Kabul, August 2021 – What happened, why, and why it matters'

Date: 6 December 

Time: 11am

In Person Venue (Notice Location): Bawden Room, Jesus College, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BL  (Please note Venue change)

Online Zoom registration link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pc-ygrDssHNYlARR1yMaSAyk9A86o8ypL

Everyone is welcome.

 About the talk: Sir Laurie will discuss the failures of policy and strategy that led to the events of August 2021, and the human costs of those failures. He will offer personal reflections, from a practitioner’s perspective, on the outlook for Afghanistan under the Taliban. Laurie’s book, Kabul: Final Call was published in April 2024 and offers a first hand account of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban.

Biography: Sir Laurie Bristow is President of Hughes Hall. He was the UK ambassador to Afghanistan in 2021 and was in Kabul when the Taliban seized control. He was previously the UK ambassador to Russia during 2016-2020 & Azerbaijan 2004-2007.