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Dr Farzana Shaikh

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

  • Forthcoming book titled, Making Sense of Pakistan (London and New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2009)
  • Pakistan Study Group, Asia Programme, Chatham House, focusing on the theme of 'Unravelling Pakistan: Threats to Stability'

Recent Publications

  • 'Pakistan: (The Very) Long March to Democracy', Current History, forthcoming 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, pp. 86-96
  • 'From Islamisation to Shariatisation: cultural transnationalism in Pakistan', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2008, pp. 593-609
  • '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, pp. 18-19
  • '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, pp. 19-20
  • 'Pakistan and Israel: Across the Divide', The World Today, 61, 10, October 2005, p. 14
  • '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

Languages

French (not for broadcast)