Negotiating Ideas Podcast
1) The Strategic Work of Human Rights in Afghanistan
Omar Sadr and Richard Bennett discuss human rights independent accountability mechanisms for Afghanistan.Richard Bennett has served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan, documenting...Show More
2) 34. Khurasan's Jewish Heritage: The Ancient Hebrew Manuscript in Bamyan
Omar Sadr and Herschel Hepler discuss Afghanistan's Liturgical Quire, the oldest Hebrew and Judeo-Persian prayer manuscript in the world.This remarkable manuscript compiles three prayer genres into a ...Show More
3) 33. Between Borders: Haim Abraham, the Afghanistan Jewish Merchant
Omar Sadr and Dahlia Abraham-Klein discuss Dahlia's grandfather, a Persian-speaking Central Asian Jewish merchant. The Stateless Central Asian Merchant: The Life of Haim Aghajan Abraham (1897-1986).Da...Show More
4) 32. How Clergy & Autocrats Empowered Each Other - with Ahmet Kuru
Omar Sadr and Ahmet Kuru discuss the role of ulama in reinforcing authoritarianism in the Muslim world, the complex and often ambivalent relationship between religious scholars and state, models for g...Show More
5) 31. Power and Authority in Afghanistan
Omar Sadr and Anna Larson discuss Power and Authority in Afghanistan. Published by I.B. Tauris in 2025, "Power and Authority in Afghanistan: Rethinking Politics, Intervention, and Rule" tackles some o...Show More
6) 30. The Taliban Courts and Legal System - with Adam Baczko
Omar Sadr and Adam Baczko discuss the Taliban courts and how the group's legal outlook provided them a breakthrough in the conflict. Originally published in French and recently translated into Engli...Show More
7) 29. Prospects of a Secular State in the Muslim World - with Abdullahi An-Naim
Abdullahi An-Naim and Omar Sadr discuss why and how Muslim should embrace universal values of human rights, constitutionalism. They also talk about a secular state does not mean an anti-religious stat...Show More
29. Prospects of a Secular State in the Muslim World - with Abdullahi An-Naim
53:08 | Dec 1st, 2024
8) 28. Liberalism Against Itself with Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn and Omar Sadr discuss failures of Cold War liberalism and the challenges of contemporary liberalism. Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Trained in mo...Show More
9) 27. Being a Refugee Scholar in America with Halil Yenigun and Alfred Babo
Omar Sadr discusses how refugee academics navigated the American academia with Halil Yenigun and Alfred Babo. Alfred is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fairfield University, Connecticut. Hal...Show More
27. Being a Refugee Scholar in America with Halil Yenigun and Alfred Babo
1:29:23 | Jul 22nd, 2024
10) 26. Persecution & Exile: Status of Afghanistan's Academia under the Taliban
Omar Sadr discusses the status of Afghanistan's academia under the Taliban with Haroon Mutasem and Qasim Wafayezada. Haroon Mutasem is a Philip Schwartz Initiative fellow at the Law School of Humbol...Show More
26. Persecution & Exile: Status of Afghanistan's Academia under the Taliban
1:06:19 | Jun 28th, 2024