Afghanistan is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in 20 years. This podcast focuses on ways to support the Afghan civil society beyond humanitarian aid, the importance of media and how to engage with the Taliban in future. Political scientist and Islam expert Asiem El-Difraoui discusses with Jasamin Ulfat-Seddiqzai, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Tareq Sydiq from the University of Marburg.
Jasamin Ulfat-Seddiqzai’s research includes orientalism, gender and masculinity, and Afghanistan as a space of British military intervention and male bonding. Political scientist Tareq Sydiqs studies focus on social movements and civil society under authoritarian regimes.
The podcast was produced by the Candid Foundation (https://www.candid-foundation.org/).
On this topic read also ifa Input “Afghanistan: August 2021 – A tentative reassessment of cultural foreign policy and civil society support” (https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/76875) by Asiem El-Difraoui and Caspar Berges.
