Some of best English language scholars on Afghanistan & diaspora that go beyond usual tropes. Trying to amplify Afghan scholars too... Google them / Google Scholar them.
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1. Khadija Abbasi graduateinstitute.ch/.../there-death...
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1. Khadija Abbasi graduateinstitute.ch/.../there-death...
3. Shahram Khosravi (many to choose from), start with: “Deportation as a Way of Life for Young Afghans,” 2016.
4. Anila Daulatzai (everything) including "The discursive occupation of Afghanistan." jstor.org/stable/pdf/204…
5. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (everything), including historical analysis + contemporary commentary on Afghanistan.
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6. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, "Art, Geopolitics, and Gendering Afghanistan." centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/.../art...
7. James Caron (lots to choose from) "Reading the power of printed orality in Afghanistan."
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9. Julie Billaud upenn.edu/pennpress/book…
10. Ayesha Khan: “Afghan Refugee Women's Experience of Conflict and Disintegration,” Meridians, 3: 1 (2002), 89-121.
11. @timothynunan Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
12. Sab Gul Khattak [on women in Afghanistan] jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.…
13. Martin Sökefeld. "Nations Rebound: German Politics of Deporting Afghans." International Quarterly for Asian Studies. 50: 1-2, pp. 91-118.
15. @Orzala's PhD, publications, and policy work @AREUafghanistan. See: eprints.soas.ac.uk/23663/1/Nemat_…
17. Elaheh Rostami-Povey's work on Afghan women and invasion (written after 2001)
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More of @JulieBillaud can be found here: allegralaboratory.net/author/julie/
19. @AzizHakimi's critical insights on Afghan masculinites, mobility, and war. Start here: tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…
22. @Oeppen's "‘Leaving Afghanistan! Are You Sure?’ European Efforts to Deter Potential Migrants Through Information Campaigns" core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4…
Corrected link for Khadija Abbasi’s great work: graduateinstitute.ch/communications…
23. Since the link to Khadija Abbasi’s great work on Hazaras was broken on tweet #1, let me add it here graduateinstitute.ch/communications…
24. Alessandro Monsutti’s seminal 2005 War and Migration, but all of his work really. Here is a good starter: researchgate.net/profile/Alessa…
25. @zarenaaslami’s body of scholarship on Afghanistan, race, and empire in c.19. Read more here: english.msu.edu/faculty/zarena…
27. @RobertCrews22 & Shazam Bashir’s edited volume Under the Drones has important contributions hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
28. Nivi Manchanda's many works, including: Queering the Pashtun citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…
29. @Emran_Feroz's Der Längste Kreig [The Longest War], in German, so breaks the rule of this list! Still, see: buecher.de/shop/afghanist…
30. Faiz Ahmed’s 2017 Afghanistan Rising, situating Afghanistan conversation with British and Ottoman influence hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
31. Benjamin Hopkins historical work is amongst the best and most rigorous. Find out more here: elliott.gwu.edu/benjamin-hopki…
32. Niamutllah Ibrahimi, "The Taliban, a New Proxy for Iran?" tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
33. Fatima Mojaddedi's "The Closing Heart, mouth, word" + more. See here: read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture…
36. Nushin Arbabzadeh, 2013. Afghan Rumour Bazar. hurstpublishers.com/book/afghan-ru…
37. @nassimmajidi's "Deportees Lost at “Home”: Post-deportation Outcomes in Afghanistan." ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/1234…
39. @mebtikar's "The United States and the Detriments of Cavalier Colonial Knowledge Production on Afghans and Afghanistan" is a great read. Follow her & her work: acku.edu.af/2021/08/11/the…
40. Nile Green, 2016, "#Afghanistan in Ink: Literature between Diaspora and Nation" (with Nushin Arbabzadeh); "Afghanistan's Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban": luminosoa.org/site/books/e/1…
41. Lida Amiri (Liverpool based) poetry here: rootedzine.co.uk/lida-amiri
42. @MaryaHannun's "From Kabul to Cairo and Back Again: The Afghan Women’s Movement and Early 20th Century Transregional Transformations" journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/…
43. Marjan's Wardaki's linkages between Afghanistan and Germany (wow!) yale.academia.edu/MarjanWardaki
45. @Sun_Haroon's seminal 2007 Frontier of Faith is a must read for those wanting a historical perspective of the Indo-Afghan now Pakistani-Afghan borderlands. One of the best historians out there. If you want to know more see: hurstpublishers.com/book/frontier-…
46. @AfghanVegan's brilliant and reflective, 2019 "Life After Ruins: Ruderal Ecologies, Afghan Diaspora, & Another Anthropocene." Wow
47. @aaolomi, historian, commentator (and brilliant thread creator!) washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
49. @sahilwarsi's "Being and belonging in Delhi: Afghan individuals and communities in a global city." eprints.soas.ac.uk/22782/1/Warsi_… Such a great scholar and person!
50. Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jeferees (eds.), Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building dukeupress.edu/globalizing-af…
51. @MaxDrephal's "Independence And The Violence Of Imperial Peace" & other historical works independence-era Afghanistan. See: historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/afghan-indepen…
@MaxDrephal 52. @RabiaLatif91's brilliant work on British Hazaras. See her SOAS PhD: "On marginality and overcoming: Narrative, memory and identity among British Hazaras" + this great LSE article on Hazaras in popular culture: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2021…
53.@MejganMassoumi's many works and details here mejganmassoumi.info
Including some great new work on Afghan radio + check out this "Leaving the War on Terror A Progressive Alternative to Counter-Terrorism Policy" tni.org/files/publicat…
Including some great new work on Afghan radio + check out this "Leaving the War on Terror A Progressive Alternative to Counter-Terrorism Policy" tni.org/files/publicat…
55. @AzetaHatef's intelligent work: Here: azetahatef.com and on distance, loss, and uncertainty: oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/hand…
57. @alibinglin's “Precious Economies: Gems and Value-making from the Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands,” PhD dissertation & more. See: cga.shanghai.nyu.edu/people/ping-hs…
59. @theprimalplot 2020 The Political Psychology of the Veil. Reading now, blown away. Assigning as compulsory reading. palgrave.com/gp/book/978303… 
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