Free and Open to Everyone
Tuesdays, March 14 – May 16, 2023; 11am-12:30pm Eastern Time
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link
Description: In 1994, Mullah Mohammad Omar claimed to have seen the Prophet in his dream and established the Taliban. After two years of struggle with Northern Alliance forces led by Ahmad Shah Masud, Omar finally captured Kabul by force in 1996. He declared the government to be the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which governed under harsh Islamic rule until ousted by US-NATO-led forces, in 2001. Thus began the decade of republic in Afghanistan. After two decades of constitutional order, the decade of the republic ended on 15 August 2021 and the Taliban took over the country. What is happening inside the country under Taliban rule? Have the Taliban been able to bring the peace and stability they promised, or have they resorted again to targeting dissidents and potential threats? What is the current situation in the country, and what is projected to happen moving forward? During this seminar, we will discuss the Taliban's recent decision banning women from education and work, and the reaction to it. The increase of rivalries, and the reasons for the rise of radicalism which is ideologically similar to Al-Qaeda and Daesh. How the Taliban strives to fill the power vacuum in Afghanistan, is posing a challenge not only to the Taliban, but to the world as well.
Weekly Readings: Available on the New University in Exile Consortium's website.
More Information: Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week. The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
Shoaib Rahim is an Associate Professor of Practice in Management at American University of Afghanistan (AUAF). He has a rich background working in the public sector ranging from his days at the Ministry of Defense, to serving as the Acting Mayor of Kabul and finally working on Afghanistan’s peace process. His academic involvement over the years has been with AUAF and he is currently a Visiting Scholar at the New School in New York.
Kazim Karimi is a Professor at Afghanistan University. He holds a PhD in Commerce from Mangalore University India where he focused his research on rural development models. His years of work in the development sector in Afghanistan as well as in the public sector have allowed him to enrich his contribution to academia over the years.
The Consortium is a globally expanding group of colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Each institutional member is committed to hosting at least one threatened scholar every year and these exiled hosted scholars constitute our scholar cohort. We work with them individually and together to try and lessen the profound sense of dislocation which exiled scholars suffer and which adversely impacts their intellectual and personal lives. In the past year, the Consortium has expanded its mission to include finding placements for threatened Afghan and Ukrainian academics, students, and artists at Consortium member institutions.
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