Contextualizing the Current Crisis in Afghanistan

Speaker
Zohra Saed
Halima Kazem-Stojanovic
Ahmad Rashid Salim
Date
Thu September 2nd 2021, 12:00 - 1:15pm
Event Sponsor
Center for South Asia, co-sponsored by the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and The Markaz
Location
Virtual Zoom Webinar (Pacific Time)
Contextualizing the Current Crisis in Afghanistan


Addressing some of the key points of the current crisis in Afghanistan, a panel of Afghan scholars will contextualize the conflict.

THE PANEL

Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn based writer. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press), editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative); and Woman. Hand/Pen. (Belladonna Chaplet). Her essays on the Central Asian diaspora have appeared in Eating Asian America (NYU Press) and The Asian American Literary Review. She co-founded UpSet Press, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit indie press, with poet Robert Booras. Zohra is Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay's Honors College, The City University of New York. (Zohra Saed's Website)

Halima Kazem-Stojanovic is an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and PhD student in the Feminist Studies Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. She has spent more than 12 years reporting from Afghanistan for major media outlets (including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and PRI) and conducting research on human rights violations for Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations. She currently teaches journalism and human rights at San Jose State University. (UCSC Graduate Student Profile)

Ahmad Rashid Salim is completing his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California – Berkeley. His research interests include Persian mystical literature and their epistemologies of Islam. His work attempts to re-read texts as sites of spiritual exegesis, poetics, and socio-political-literary critique. Furthermore, he studies the history, culture, and literature of modern Afghanistan and looks to interrogate and complicate prevalent notions around literary independence, peripheries of language, and imagined pasts in the Persianate world. His book Islam Explained was published by Rockridge Press.

Moderated by Mejgan Massoumi, who received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University (2021) and is currently a Teaching Fellow in the COLLEGE Program at Stanford University.

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