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Navneet Khan
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PhD Scholar AIS, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Ethnic Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan and South Asia, IR.
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After Israel's genocide became untenable for even Israel's staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctrinated mind than Iran. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-...
How Israel’s war on Iran saved the “West” from its own humanity
After Israel’s genocide became untenable for even Israel’s staunchest allies to support, the West needed a more “perfect villain” to keep backing Israel. And there was no better villain for an indoctr...
mondoweiss.net
June 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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EU President Should Be Tried for Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes, Says Top UN Expert on Palestine flip.it/nSp9SA
EU President Should Be Tried for Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes, Says Top UN Expert on Palestine
“I’m not someone who says, ‘History will judge them’ — they will have to be judged before then,” Francesca Albanese said in an exclusive interview.
flip.it
May 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I was invited by Omar Sadr on his podcast Negotiating Ideas to discuss how the Taliban courts allowed them to institute Sharia law and establish social control while waging an insurgency against the third republic of Afghanistan (2004-2021). negotiatingideas.com/podcast/the-...
The Taliban Courts and Legal System - with Adam Baczko - Negotiating Ideas
Omar Sadr and Adam Baczko discuss the Taliban courts and how their legal outlook provided them a breakthrough in the conflict. Originally published in French and recently translated into English by Ox...
negotiatingideas.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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sorry for being away bluesky, i am not trying to cheat on you with twt, i just end up doing so 😔
December 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
The Idlib Model of Ahmad Al-Sharra for whole Syria. Inclusive and moderate.
#RebelGovernance
#Idlib #Syria
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rebel rule in Idlib hints at what the rest of Syria can expect
The Islamist group that now runs Syria has led everyday life for people in Idlib for seven years.
www.bbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Interesting set of panel on Pakistan's music and fashion sensibilities at the first Annual Pakistan Conclave in Pondicherry University, India.
#southasiasky #Pakistan
December 12, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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And now we get the news that the Assad regime is withdrawing from Daraya :)
Re-releasing a piece I wrote in 2018 given everything going on in #Syria right now

An idea called Daraya www.hauntologies.net/p/an-idea-ca...
An Idea Called Daraya
Homage to the rebellious Syrian town
www.hauntologies.net
December 7, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Having a modern morning — ie both on phones. Me: "Martial law in Korea!" Robin: "I don't see that anywhere" Me: "It's on Bluesky"

This site has arrived
December 3, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Just a more rich and literate version of Andrew Tate!
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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#Syria MAP UPDATE: the situation in Syria as of 01/12/2024. After almost five years of frozen frontlines the #Assad regime has collapsed all over the northwest.

Rebel forces captured #Aleppo city and advanced as far south as N Hama

Download larger file: mediafire.com/file/oqaq78v1e…
December 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Hello! I am a historian of modern South Asia, with a growing interest in foreign policy in the South Asian neighborhood.

My most recent book is “Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia.” It’s now 30% off with the code HOL24 on the HUP website:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Hurt Sentiments — Harvard University Press
An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, it was widely expected that India would be secul...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Africa is breaking away from France. After Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, today both Chad and Senegal have ended defence agreements and called for the removal of French soldiers.
November 29, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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My PhD student @ryanswan.bsky.social is researching NGOs and third sector organisations that work with Arab refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. If you have contacts who work in this field, please get in touch with Ryan - details below 👇
For my PhD fieldwork: I'm looking for NGO or third sector workers who've had experience or with refugees or asylum seekers from Arab States in Scotland. Those here who have contacts in Scotland - please share, if you can!
November 28, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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🎓 New journal article on the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty by Mari Huttunen:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A tale of two sovereigns: the responsibility to protect and the competing notions of responsible sovereignty
At the 2005 United Nations World Summit, member states unanimously acknowledged the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Despite this apparent unity, states have remained divided over ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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I write for East Asia Forum that the India-Maldives reset shows, that the anti-India populism subsides when regional actors face economic and governance challenges and India needs to shift from a personalised FP approach to investing in institutions.

eastasiaforum.org/2024/11/26/t...
The Maldives presses reset on ties with India
After a year of antagonism, financial and strategic realities have forced Maldivian President Mohammed Muizzu to pursue a new course of relations with India.
eastasiaforum.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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I write for @thediplomat.com about India's refusal to play in Pakistan reflects more than just fraught ties. It opens up questions for the ICC regarding the future hosting rights and its ability to treat the member states equally.

thediplomat.com/2024/11/indi...
India, Pakistan, and the ICC: The Champions Trophy Saga
India’s politicization of its cricket board is having an outsized impact on international tournaments.
thediplomat.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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The JMM-led INDIA bloc was leading in 46 of the 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand while the BJP-headed NDA was ahead in 29 as the counting of votes was underway on Saturday, according to trends available on the Election Commission’s website. T
November 23, 2024 at 5:44 AM
This is a big victory for BJP coming out as the largest party to dictate the terms. Fadnavis is going to get big rewards here.
Massive loss for Uddhav Thakrey!
November 23, 2024 at 5:44 AM
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Once a month, we will feature a book from a member of the International Sociological Association RC48.

This month, we proudly share “A People's History of the Farmers' Movement, 2020-2021” edited by Shamsher Singh and Sabah Siddiqui.

#Sociology #SocialMovements #India
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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My biography of V.P Menon, Reforms Commissioner to India's last three Viceroys & the man who, along with Sardar Patel, got 565 princely states to sign on India's dotted line, goes into print yet again(!!!). ✨

Available at bookstores near you or online at : amzn.in/d/ajoXQHd
November 21, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Going to present my views on Taliban as New Religio Political movement in Afghanistan in CIRCLE South Asia Graduate conference organised by University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
October 3, 2023 at 9:39 PM
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Alexandra Délano Alonso and I are grateful for these wonderful endorsements of "The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics" which is now available in paperback! 👇
www.routledge.com/The-Microfou...
September 27, 2023 at 9:39 AM