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November 14, 2011 Dr. Amjad Hussain - "Middle East" Background and an update Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain was born on January 1, 1937 in Peshawar City, Pakistan to Agha Sayed Gulbadshah, a civil servant in provincial government. He is the past President of the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo and currently, he serves on the Governing Board of WGTE Public Broadcasting in Northwest Ohio and on the Board of Trustees of The University of Toledo. Since 1976, Dr. Hussain has visited Pakistan on a yearly basis for voluntary teaching at Khyber Medical College, Peshawar. As a freelance writer, he has written over four hundred newspaper and magazine articles about history, politics, religion and culture in American and international publications. Dr. Hussain discussed the past, present, and future of Afghanistan. He spoke about the British presence in 1842 and the invasion by the Soviet Union in 1978 in Afghanistan. Dr. Hussain spoke about the Civil War in Afghanistan and the cost of the war. Dr. Hussain mentioned a book he wrote about the Taliban and he stated that the death of Osama bin Laden did not have much impact on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Dr. Hussain concluded that changes in Afghanistan come very slowly and it is doubtful that if Afghanistan can be brought under the influence of the United States