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Attiya Ahmad is Georgetown University’s 2009-10 Center for International and Regional Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow. She recently completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Dr. Ahmad’s work brings together scholarship on Islamic studies, globalization, diaspora and migration studies, economic anthropology, and political economy.
Originally posted December 2009
Originally posted December 2009
It is a difficult task to suggest a specific recipe for the improvement of the economy of any failed state. The case of Afghanistan presents even more challenges.
The Magnitude of the Challenge
Originally posted September 2009
Edward W. Said’s widow, Mariam, tells me that his books are still selling well. The academic community has been transformed, and the field of literary criticism has been revolutionized as a result of his legacy. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has in recent years elected a series of presidents reflecting non-orientalist approaches. At the last MESA annual meeting in Washington, DC in November 2008 a plenary session was devoted to Said’s work. The large hall was packed.
Originally posted December 2009
Originally posted December 2009
20 April, 2012 MEI Podcast,Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Uprisings
20 April, 2012 MEI Podcast,Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Uprisings
20 April, 2012 MEI Podcast,Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Uprisings
20 April, 2012 MEI Podcast,Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Uprisings
20 April, 2012 MEI Podcast,Arab Economic Challenges and Opportunities in the Wake of the Uprisings
Originally posted December 2009
Originally posted December 2009
Originally posted December 2009
A hasty, fluid, and poorly conceived process of creating leadership in a post-war situation mainly provides the space for rich and powerful — mostly corrupt — individuals to prevail because their roles, styles, and abilities overshadow concerns about their background, characteristics, homogeneity, and behavioral patterns.[1] Regrettably, such is the case in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
