Publications
Book Projects
Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (November 2023, Stanford University Press)
Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Anthropological Knowledge on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Co-edited with Nafay Choudhury (forthcoming with Berghahn Books)
Sproutbau: Ein Sommer im Beton / Wohnung und Kunst im Abrisshaus. 2009. Edition Temmen.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Where Do Nomads Bury Their Dead? Necro-ostracism, statelessness and the pastoral/peripatetic divide in Afghanistan. 2025. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI). Accepted for Publication
Minority Games: inter-group power imbalances in a nation of competing identities. 2025. In: Larson, Anna; Sharifi, Omar; Mukhopadhyay, Dipali (eds). Handbook on Modern Afghanistan: Reconceptualizing Power and Authority. I.B. Tauris (accepted for publication)
Obligation, Failure, and the Promise of Migration. In: Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Berghahn Press, 2024, p.51-68.
Dreaming the Path - Ontological Shifts in a Sufi Order in Afghanistan. In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2024, no. 14 (1): 74-87.
Editing Sufism/Contemporary Negotiations of Memory and Religious Practice in Afghanistan. 2023. In: Berg, Gabrielle van den; Paskaleva, Elena. (ed.) Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia. Texts, Traditions and Practices 10th-21st Centuries. Brill, Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 17, Pages: 133–160.
Disentangling the "War on Terror": Present Pasts and Possible Futures - Introduction. In: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES). Co-authored and co-edited with Hannun, Marya; Ping-hsiu, Alice Lin. Introduction for Edited Roundtable “Disentangling the "War on Terror" (2022), 54, 338–339.
Dissolving Gender Difference – Female Teachers, Male Allies and the Creation of Islamic Sufi Authority in Afghanistan. In: Afghanistan Journal. 2021, vol 4, No. 2, 142-69.
Transforming Trauma in Post-Conflict Settings/ Ethnographic Evidence from a Social Circus Project in Afghanistan. In: Breed, Ananda/Prentki, Tim. (ed.) 2020. The Companion to Applied Performance. Routledge. (Also available on Google Books)
Finding their place: Sufism in contested religious discourse in Afghanistan. In: Türkan Bagli, Melike; Özten Hazirlayan, Fatma (ed.). 2020. 1st International Sufi Studies Graduate Student Symposium Proceedings.
Journalistic and Other
On Circular Memory - Whispers of the buried and burnt. In: StimulusRespond, Vesper Edition. Accepted for publication, forthcoming.
Sufi Transitions: Between mullahs and Sufis in Afghanistan. In: Aeon Magazine. 4.January, 2024
Tangled Webs – Researchers reflect on the ethics of evacuation activism in Afghanistan. Anthropology News. Issue: Truth and Responsibility. Co-authored with Marya Hannun (2021)
The Problem of Multiplicity: Deconstructing “Sufism” and “the Taliban”. Berkeley Forum. Series: Islam, Politics and the Future of Afghanistan. November 3, 2021.
Wir werden mit ihnen reden. Zenith Magazin. Ausgabe: “War on Terror: Der Nahe Osten rückt näher'“. October 2021.
Adapting Solidarity, Navigating Uncertainty: Conflict and Covid-19 in Urban Afghanistan. American Ethnologist Pandemic Blog. October 12, 2020. Co-authored with Omar Sharifi
Divine Whispers/Dreaming on the Sufi Path in Afghanistan. Cabinet Magazine. Autumn 2020. Issue 67 / Dreams.
Es werde Orient! 360 Grad Magazin. 2011
Reports
The Scope and Impact of Official Development Assistance in Afghanistan (2001-2021). Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. 2023. Co-authored with Paniz Musawi Natanzi
The Self-Help Group Approach in Afghanistan. People In Need and the European Union. 2018.
Opportunities at the Margins / The Jogi Community in Afghanistan. People in Need and the European Union. 2015.
