The Lost Daughter of the Hindu Kush
A personal and political history of Afghanistan, and of the identity, language and justice it lost.
Author · Geopolitical Writer
Sedika Weingärtner
Between the Hindu Kush and the Grand Chessboard.
Born in Kabul into a family of scholars and jurists, Sedika Weingärtner writes where personal memory meets world politics: Afghanistan and its lost cultural world, the Persian idea of justice, and the shifting balance of a multipolar age.
Her books read history from the inside: a daughter’s memory of Kabul beside the cold arithmetic of empires, Persian poetry beside the petrodollar. Analysis, written with a conscience.
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- books, written as one inquiry into power and memory
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- editions, in English and German
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- chapters on Afghanistan, from Khorasan to 2026
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- strategic arenas re-examined after Brzezinski
The Books
Two books. One inquiry into power, memory and justice.
Each title is published in English and in German.
The Brzezinski Paradox
A concise handbook that reads Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard against the multipolar realities of 2026.
Ideas & Themes
The territories of her writing
Recurring questions run through both books. They are presented here as the perspectives and arguments the author develops in her work.
- I Geopolitics and the Multipolar World How power is redistributed when no single arbiter rules the board.
- II Afghanistan and the Hindu Kush A young name on an ancient soil, read beyond the headlines of war.
- III Identity and Language Why the name of a language can become a political act.
- IV Justice and Law Dad and bidad: the oldest measure of legitimate power.
- V Eurasia Corridors, pipelines and land bridges across the old chessboard.
- VI Cultural Memory What a family archive can tell that official history forgets.
- VII Women’s Freedom A pioneering history, and the silence that followed it.
- VIII Diplomacy and World Order From dictate to dialogue: a realism without wishful thinking.
Featured Book
The Lost Daughter of the Hindu Kush
Geopolitics, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice
In this book
- Personal narrative and family memory
- Afghanistan and the Hindu Kush
- Persian language and cultural heritage
- Identity and the politics of language
- Justice: the Persian idea of dad
- Women’s freedom
History has repeatedly proven that injustice passes away. But justice (Dad) … will relentlessly sprout new buds once more.
Journal
Latest writing
Essays, commentary and notes on new publications. All writing
Reading Brzezinski in 2026
Why a book written in 1997 remains the best way into the arguments of today, and where the author thinks it misleads.
1 min read
Dad: A Persian Word for Justice
On an ancient idea of rightful order, and why its opposite, bidad, still describes so much of the present.
1 min read
Two Languages, Two Editions
Notes on publishing in English and German, and on the Persian voice behind both.
1 min read
Find the Books
Choose your edition
Available in English and in German, in print and as eBooks.
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English edition
The Lost Daughter of the Hindu Kush
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German edition
Das verlorene Mädchen vom Hindukusch
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English edition
The Brzezinski Paradox
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German edition
Das Brzezinski-Paradoxon
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