24 episodes
Negotiating Ideas Omar Sadr
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- Society & Culture
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4.4 • 12 Ratings
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Negotiating Ideas is a Podcast about liberty, democracy, and pluralism in Afghanistan and around the world. I am Omar Sadr, a scholar in exile, forced to flee my homeland overnight due to the Taliban’s brutality. In this podcast, as in my research, I explore how totalitarianism threatens democracy and the ways in which societies reinstitute freedom, democracy, and pluralism. My goal is to create a space for those who value pluralism, democracy, and liberty to find each other to develop solidarity and clarity.
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24. Secularism and Islam with Nader Hashemi
Omar Sadr and Nader Hashemi discuss Islam and democracy.
Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Readings:
ISLAM, SECULARISM, AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
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23. History and Antisemitism with Barnett Rubin
Omar Sadr and Barnett Rubin discuss Jews history, antisemitism and Zionism.
Barnett R. Rubin is a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Quincy Institute Responsible Statecraft and at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, where he was Senior Fellow and Director of the Afghanistan Regional Program from 2000 to 2020. From April 2009 until October 2013, Rubin was senior adviser to the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2001 he served as senior advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan.
Readings:
False Messiahs: How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became
entangled with colonialism.
The Janus-faced history undergirding the Israel-Gaza conflict
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22. Lior Sternfeld on controversies in universities on the Israel-Palestine war
Omar Sadr and Lior Sternfeld discuss the recent controversies in the American campus on the war in Gaza
LIOR STERNFELD is a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in the histories of the Jewish people and other minorities of the region. His first book, titled “Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran,” examines the development and integration of Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the last century.
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21. Consociational democracy for Afghanistan with Haqmal Daudzai
Omar Sadr talks to Haqmal Daudzai on consociational democracy in Afghanistan
Dr. Haqmal Daudzai is a researcher at the Dutch Royal Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His book, The Statebuilding Dilemma in Afghanistan, the state governmental design at the national level and the Role of democratic provincial councils in Decentralization at the sub-national Level- was published reviews the US/NATO intervention and the subsequent state institutional design at Afghanistan's national and subnational levels since 2001. Dr. Daudzai has previously worked with USAID as a political advisor to the Afghanistan National Parliament in Kabul.
Suggested readings:
The State-Building Dilemma in Afghanistan: The State Governmental Design at the National Level and the Role of Democratic Provincial Councils in Decentralization at the Sub-National Level, Budrich Academic Press, 2021.
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20. On Afghanistan Women Movement with Halima Kazem
Omar Sadr talks to Halima Kazem on "Bread, Work, Freedom" Movement of Afghanistan Women
Halima is a lecturer, historian, and filmmaker whose work intersects in the areas of gender, empire, human rights, and media. Her primary research focuses on Afghanistan and other Muslim countries with long histories of conflict. Her work is deeply rooted in feminist methodologies and 20 years of working as a journalist and human rights researcher.
Suggested readings:
Human Rights Watch: Afghanistan: Taliban Deprive Women of Livelihoods, Identity Severe Restrictions, Harassment, Fear in Ghazni Province, Human Rights Watch
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19. On Polycentric Democracy & Pluralism with Julian Muller
Omar Sadr talks to Julian F. Müller on Pluralism and polycentric democracy.
Julian is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Hamburg. Prior to that Julian was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Political Theory Project at Brown University and research associate at the Peter Loescher Endowed Chair of Business Ethics at Technical University of Munich and a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. His doctoral dissertation - published under the title Political Pluralism, Disagreement and Justice: The Case for a Polycentric Democracy won several research prizes.
Suggested readings:
Julian F. Müller: Political pluralism, disagreement and justice: the case for polycentric democracy, New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.
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