Biography

Javeed Ahwar holds three master degrees; in Politics and Security in Central Asia from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2011), in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University (2015), and in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University (2018). He recently completed his Ph.D. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Eurasian Studies at Nazarbayev University. He has also participated in Gender Equality Studies Fellowship Program at Iceland University in 2012.

Dr. Ahwar’s research can be described as critical study of elitist politics and historiographies within the overall frame of postcolonial studies with geographic focus on Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. His research so far has mostly focused on comparative study of early modern Uzbek, (Tajiki/Dari) Persian and Pashto literatures. Through his works, he has laid emphasis on the role of language ideology, elitist (dominant group) politics, educational policies and history-writing in transforming national vis-a-vis subnational identities. He has also done fieldwork among Afghanistani diaspora in Hamburg Germany in 2017.

Selected Publications

Ahwar, Javeed. 2023. “Nationalism from the Margins: A Critical Study of Elitist   Historiography and Politics in Māwarāʾ Al-Nahr and Khurāsān (Later Uzbekistan, Tajikistan    and Afghanistan), 1800-1950.” Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Sciences and Humanities,       Nazarbayev University, Supervisor Prof. Uli Schamiloglu

Ahwar, Javeed. 2023. “Decoding the Taliban’s Anti-Persianism.” The Diplomat Magazine

Ahwar, Javeed. 2020. Review of Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy: Between Continuity and Rupture, by Jean‐François Caron, 2019, Palgrave Macmillan. Slavic Review 335: 335-339.

Ahwar, Javeed. 2018. “Local Governance in Afghanistan: The Unwalked Path.” The Diplomat Magazine

Ahwar, Javeed. 2012. Path Dependency and International Conferences on Afghanistan. Kabul: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

HST 100 History of Kazakhstan

HST 104 Central Asian History