The Cornell Policy Review invites Raza Rumi to speak with us about the ongoing Afghanistan crisis and the role of the global community.
Raza Ahmad Rumi is a Pakistani policy analyst, journalist, and author. He is a lecturer at Cornell institute for public affairs. Raza is also the Director, Park Center for Independent Media and teaches in the journalism department. During 2015-2017, Raza was a scholar in residence at IC and taught courses in journalism and writing departments as well as at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. Raza has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, and the National Endowment for Democracy. He is a member of the think tank at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University; and a non-resident fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He was a staff member of Asian Development Bank, United Nations, and she has served in the government of Pakistan as a district administrator.
Raza was the editor of Daily Times, The Friday Times, and a TV broadcaster in Pakistan before he moved to the United States in 2014. Raza is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and Identity and Faith and Conflict. His most recent book Being Pakistani: Society Culture and the Arts was published in June 2018 by Harper Collins, India. He also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Rethinking Pakistan that was published by Anthem Press in September 2020.
