Experts

Experts

Dr Farzana Shaikh

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

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Expertise

  • Pakistan
  • South Asian Islam
  • Bangladesh: politics, history and society
  • Afghanistan: politics and humanitarian issues

Projects

  • Pakistan Study Group, Asia Programme, Chatham House, focusing on the theme of 'Unravelling Pakistan: Threats to Stability'

Recent Publications

  • 'The Dynamics of Muslim Identity in South Asia' (published in Spanish as 'Las dinamicas de la identitad Musulmana en el sur de Asia'), Culturas (special issue on Islam in Asia), Three Cultures Foundation, Seville, No. 6, 2010
  • Pakistan's Perilous Voyage, Current History, Vol 107, No. 712, November 2008
  • '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
  • 'From Islamisation to Shariatisation: Cultural Transnationalism in Pakistan', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2008
  • 'Pakistan's Army will Still be the Final Arbiter', The Independent on Sunday, 17 February 2008
  • 'Pakistan: Luck Running Out?', The World Today, Vol. 63, No. 12, December 2007
  • 'Battered Musharraf Playing with Fire', The Times, 11 July 2007
  • The Shariatisation of Pakistani Nationalism, Occasional Paper 29, April 2007, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 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
  • 'India and Pakistan - The Earthquake: Peace Amid the Ruins', The World Today, 61, 12, December 2005
  • 'Pakistan and Israel: Across the Divide', The World Today, 61, 10, October 2005,
  • 'Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: Beyond the Non-Proliferation Regime', International Affairs, 78, 1, January 2002

Books

  • Making Sense of Pakistan, London and New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, 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


Languages

French (not for broadcast)
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