Date & Time: Wednesday, September 15th 2:00PM EST (Online Zoom Webinar; Registration Required)
*Note: this talk has been postponed*
Abstract:
How are the Afghan Shia responding to the return of the Taliban? The target of Taliban violence and sectarian enmity in the 1990s, Shi'i communities confront an uncertain future. This talk will survey the evolution of the Shi'i landscape in Afghanistan since 2001 and examine how various actors are trying to adapt to the new Taliban order today.
Speaker:
Robert D. Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University Department of History
Moderator:
Payam Mohseni, Director of the Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs.
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Speaker Bio:
Robert D. Crews is the author of Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015) and For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2012) and The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2008). His work has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, and The New York Times.
He has served as Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Afghanistan.