
Research Fellow @CICAM_RU @Radboud_Uni, PhD Political Economy @SOAS, SenResearcher @WAI_News, Visiting Scholar @AREUafghanistan, Chief of Staff @AFGCentralBank
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Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Afghanistan at Crossroads: Navigating a Multifaceted Crisis in a Changing World
On 19th May 2026, FARAGEER convened a one- day dialogue at #LSE @EdwardsMil38246, which brought together 46 UK-based #Afghan experts, civil society leaders, women human rights defenders, academics, former government officials along side FARAGEER #delegation to discuss the most urgent challenges Afghanistan is facing.
The aim of this event was to provide safe space to #Afghans to collectively #reflect on the evolving situation within Afghanistan, in the region and globally among #themselves.
The event was opened by Ms. #NargisNehan and #JoannaLewis. In three #panel discussions and #presentations, speakers #examined the situation and shared their perspectives.
The first panel focused on the #HumanitarianCrisis, Situation of #Economy, #Climate Change, Social Sector and security situation in the past four years, moderated by @seema_ghani with Dr. #OrzalaNemat, Dr. #SarajuddinIsar, Mr. @MozamilShinwari, Ms. #KamilaSiddiqi, Ms. #AdelaMohseni and #ParwaizIbrahimkahil as presenters/speakers.
The second panel was on different International Accountability Mechanisms for Afghanistan (ICC and ICJ), new Independent Investigative Mechanism on Afghanistan and the Gender Apartheid Campaign, moderated by #AsilaWardak, with Mr. #NatiqMalikzada and Ambassador #NasirAndisha as presenters/speakers.
The third panel discussed changing global order and challenges and opportunities for Advocacy on Afghanistan, having Mr. #IdreesRahmani, Mr. #HamidHakimi, Ms. #NigaraMirdad, Mr. #ArefSahar and Mr. #WaidBarmak as speakers.
The day concluded with the presentation of a summary of the discussions and points for the way forward by Mr. #ZulamaiNishat.
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@Orzala
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Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Replying to @peer_schouten @VVandenboogaard @MaxGallien @florian_weigand @jmantillaba @Isar2000 @Jethro_Norman @AbdirahmanEdle @peyman_zinati
This special issue grows out of the "Roadblocks and Revenues" working paper series, made possible by the @CarlsbergFonden grant supporting the TRADECRAFT project @diisdk, and by @ICTDTax and the @Armed_Groups. Thank you. 🙏
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Afghanistan: @Isar2000 shows how checkpoint taxation sustained a neo-patrimonial political order, and its unraveling. The Taliban's leaner, more predictable checkpoint regime won over trade elites where the government's extractive chaos drove them away. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
And #2 is out: a wonderful longue durée study of checkpoints and state formation in Afghanistan by @Isar2000. Read it here, open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
"Not so freeway": Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India by my amazing postdoc Shalaka Thakur.
#1/n for @DevandChg taking stock of the politics of roadblocks, edited by @florian_weigand, @VVandenboogaard, @MaxGallien. It's open access!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Delighted to share that 'Mapping Futures for Afghanistan' will be published as part of @routledgebooks 's Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series on 20 Oct 2025.
routledge.com/Mapping-Future…
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
'Talibanland - Paradise Under the Shadow of Sabers in Afghanistan,' by @BonjourGeorgi, analyses the Taliban’s rise to power and its rule in Afghanistan from various perspectives. bit.ly/4jF5YmH
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
New publication alert!
🧵 Checkpoints, Transnational trade, and Conflict: How armed groups turn transnational trade into profits (and why it matters).
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
One week until: Small states, Russia and the West with @abrahamyan13
Join us for an in-depth discussion on the evolving geopolitics of the #Caucasus
Fri 28th Mar, 4pm to 5pm
Online
Info & reg: bit.ly/3QSVCCF
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Coming 31st March: routledge.com/State-Governan…
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
💰 Does foreign income fuel power consolidation in dictatorships?
➡@bernat_puertas & A. Escribà-Folch show there is no robust link between the two—only a limited effect on certain aspects of personalism cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
These papers by Smith and Linz consider the relationship between two distinct but linked processes: the making of states and the building of nations.
Download of Smith: bresserpereira.org.br/tercei…
Download of Linz: academia.edu/39201827/VIII_A…
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
My book Dawn Rose on a Dead Body is out now in the Public Anthropology series of @ucpress. ucpress.edu/books/dawn-rose-…
This ethnography explores everyday life, violence, and poppy farming in Badiraguato, Sinaloa—a place often reduced to cartel myths. A 🧵 1/
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
'The Evolution of Political Ideology' applies multilevel selection theory to an examination of both the natural history of ideology, and how that natural history has unfolded through the course of civil history in the Western world. bit.ly/4inp4N3
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Not sure about others, but to me "state building" is such a difficult concept to teach. Well, thanks to @YinQingfei's work, we can learn more about it in a much nuanced way, beyond nation states, in-btw socialist brotherhood, and within the context of anti-colonial politics
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
📅 🗣️ Next week Wednesday (March 12) at 6pm we have the big Cambridge book launch for Shifting Sovereignties @IntellForum @JesusCollegeCam.
To join, sign up (for free) here:
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Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
We have heard these days that judges cannot overrule the president, who himself claims to represent the will of the people. This view is the core of the #Illiberalism embedded in #populism, of the left or the right. I discuss this issue here. The book just arrived! @ILLSP_GWU
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
The Afghanistan Legal Research Network is delighted to host its first symposium of the year on 5 March, #Justice for #Afghanistan: The Path to a UN Accountability Mechanism, with speakers @azadahrm, @formulian, & Sayed Abdul Wahab Sadat. 🇦🇫
#ALRN #Accountability #HumanRights 1/4
Sarajuddin Isar retweeted
Two wars, two eras, two very different dress codes; same room, same old battlefield: against the Kremlin. Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s rocked turbans, Zelensky in the 2020s sticks to his hoodie. Funny how modern journalists seem more interested in the wardrobe than the war!









































