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Dr Farzana Shaikh
Associate Fellow, Asia Programme
| Telephone: | +44 (0)20 7957 5739 |
| Contact: | Email Dr Farzana Shaikh |
Expertise
- Pakistan
- South Asian Islam
- Bangladesh: politics, history and society
- Afghanistan: politics and humanitarian issues
Projects
- Forthcoming book titled, Making Sense of Pakistan (London and New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, May 2009)
- Pakistan Study Group, Asia Programme, Chatham House, focusing on the theme of 'Unravelling Pakistan: Threats to Stability'
Recent Publications
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Pakistan's Perilous Voyage, Current History, Vol 107, No. 712, November 2008, pp. 362-368
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'The Islamic bomb: myth or reality?' (published in Spanish as 'La Bomba Islamica: Mito o realidad?'), Culturas (special issue on Pakistan), Three Cultures Foundation, Seville, No. 1, 2008, pp. 86-96
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'From Islamisation to Shariatisation: cultural transnationalism in Pakistan', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2008, pp. 593-609
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'Pakistan's army will still be the final arbiter', The Independent on Sunday, 17 February 2008
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'Pakistan: Luck Running Out?', The World Today, Vol. 63, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 18-19
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'Battered Musharraf playing with fire', The Times, 11 July 2007
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The shariatisation of Pakistani nationalism, Occasional Paper 29, April 2007, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Pakistan's Foreign Policy Under Musharraf: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, with Owen Bennett Jones, Chatham House Briefing Paper, ASP BP 06/01, March 2006
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'India and Pakistan - The Earthquake: Peace Amid the Ruins', The World Today, 61, 12, December 2005, pp. 19-20
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'Pakistan and Israel: Across the Divide', The World Today, 61, 10, October 2005, p. 14
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'Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: Beyond the Non-Proliferation Regime', International Affairs, 78, 1, January 2002, pp. 29-48
Books
- Making Sense of Pakistan (London and New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, April 2009)
- Islam and Islamic Groups: a Worldwide Reference Guide, ed. (Harlow: Longman, 1992)
- Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Experience
| 2005-Present | Associate Fellow, Chatham House |
| 2006-07 | Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 2003-08 |
Associate, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge |
| 2003 |
Guest Lecturer, University of Basle, Switzerland |
| 2002-03 |
Lecturer in South Asian Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
| 2002 |
Guest Lecturer, University of Pavia, Italy |
| 1997-Present |
Consultant on South Asia for the Emergency and Security Services (ESS) of the UNHCR |
| 1990-96 |
Managing editor for South Asia, Keesing's Record of World Events |
| 1984-90 | Research Fellow in Politics, Clare Hall, Cambridge |
| 1983 |
PhD in Political Science, Columbia University, New York |
Broadcast Experience
Extensive
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