Scholars in the Press
The Taliban’s Gender Politics: Repression at Home, Performance on the World Stage – C275
By Hasina Jalal and Paulo Casaca 22 October, 2025Published by South Asian Democratic Forum Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, Afghan women and girls have been systematically eliminated from public life; they have been banned from secondary and higher education, including online learning platforms in…Continue reading→
How Security Council Politics Trample Women’s Rights
By: Hasina Jalal Published by: The National InterestOctober 21, 2025 The situation facing Afghan women and girls is a test of our shared commitment to human rights, justice, and equality. While world leaders gathered in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) under the banner “Better Together:…Continue reading→
The Dispositif of Exile: I filmed Salman Rushdie being stabbed and screamed: “Oh, my God!”.
AnouarRahmaniSep 08, 2025@anouarrahmaniopinion Salman Rushdie was stabbed. A man stubbed him with all the strength that could be mustered. He was hit, punched, and stabbed repeatedly and with great malice, while I filmed with my phone. I couldn’t believe what was happening; I expected an…Continue reading→
Do You See Me?! Do You Hear My Voice?!
By Dr. Nael Hijjo September 2025Published by Scene 48 Roots of Exile: Family, Displacement, and Hope Writing about my personal experience as a Palestinian in exile makes me conflicted. I am a Palestinian whose family hails from ‘Askalan (al-Jura), Palestine. We were forced out of…Continue reading→
“The Wound and the Window: My Journey from Yemen to the World Stage”
By Dr. Mansour Al-Maswari A Columbia Global Emerging Scholar on how displacement uprooted his life, and what it meant to share his story and culture at Columbia Global Center Amman. Some nights, I still wake to the sound of shells that aren’t falling. Exile plays…Continue reading→
“My family is gone,” she wrote, her voice silenced by the weight of her words – Hedaya Saleh Shamun
Published December 2, 2023 in Non Fiction, The dreaming machine n 13 At the peak of my frustration and anger, fueled by the relentless onslaught of Israeli occupation forces in Gaza, the first video message reached me from my dear friend, Wafa Eid, a resident of the…Continue reading→
Higher Education and Authoritarianism: Lessons From Afghanistan for the US
By Abdul Aziz MohibbiMay 15, 2025 Published by The Diplomat The Taliban’s return to Kabul in the summer of 2021 sent shock waves through the university system. Students at Bamyan University, where I was chancellor at the time, fled back to their homes in rural areas. As Taliban…Continue reading→
New Publication: Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa (Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa)
by Tijen Tunali (Herausgeber) Abstract: Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation. Nevertheless, a critical inquiry into how political aesthetics can…Continue reading→
New University in Exile for Afghan Artist Fellow, Mujib Mehrdad, featured in USA TODAY
“America promised them safety. Now they fear what Trump will do next.“ April 23, 2025 By Sara Pequeño in USA TODAY Mujib Mehrdad and his wife, Aria Mushahed “Mujib Mehrdad, 40, and his wife, Aria Mushahed, 35, were supposed to be on their honeymoon when…Continue reading→
New Publication: Fascism or Whatever You Want to Call It
By Saladdin Bahozde Published by De Gruyter Brill About this book Fascism or Whatever You Want to Call It constructs a crucial framework for diagnosing and exposing fascist ideologies and movements in whatever historical and geographical circumstances or disguises they may appear. At no point in…Continue reading→