Bio

Sarah Kamal is a media and development specialist who conducted independent research in Afghanistan during and after the Taliban regime. Her areas of interest include media reconstruction, gender in Afghanistan, and youth and forced migration. She has worked for media development organizations and the United Nations on community initiatives.  She has a BMath from the University of Waterloo, an MSc from MIT, and is a former Trudeau Scholar.  She is now researching climate migration policy as a Master's student in Science and Technology Studies at the University of British Columbia, and is first director for the Indigenous-led Fraser Canyon Emergency Services Society.

Please find a brief index into some of my published works below.

• Climate resilience: finding a collective path forward, guest blog post, ZN Advisory, March 29, 2022.
  
• The fires were just the beginning: Welcome to the age of climate displacement, Op-ed (with George Benson), Vancouver Sun, August 9, 2021.
• Out of harm's way: A scan of emerging global practices in climate change displacement for Canadian policymakers and practitioners, UBC Sustainability Scholars Report, June 2021.
• Planning with dignity: Indigenous community-led climate migration planning, Managed Retreat Conference 2021, Columbia University, June 2021.
• Review: Eben Kirksey, The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2020, Logos: a journal of modern society and culture, Volume 20, no 1, 2021.
• Repatriation and reconstruction: Afghan youth as a ‘burnt generation’ in post-conflict return, in Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa, eds. Dawn Chatty and Bill Finlayson.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Afghan Refugee Youth in Iran and the Morality of Repatriation (pre-print version), in Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East, ed. Dawn Chatty.  Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010.
• The Last Word, University of Waterloo Magazine, Fall 2009.
• Afghanistan: Donors seek to coordinate activities, Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, July 10, 2008.
• Afghanistan: Media Output is Source, Target of Unrest, Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, January 31, 2008.
• Afghanistan/NATO: Opinion Polls do not Signal Progress, Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, December 14, 2007.
• Development on-air: Women's Radio Production in Afghanistan, Gender & Development, Volume 15, Number 3, 2007. This is an electronic version of an article published in Gender & Development, available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/gad.
• Grounds for Development: Media Development Practice and Theory in Post-Conflict Afghanistan, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA PGN, Volume 1, Number 1, 2007.
• Development Communications Strategies and Domestic Violence in Afghanistan, in Domestic Violence in Muslim Families, edited by Maha B. Alkhateeb and Salma Elkadi Abugideiri. Great Falls, VA: Peaceful Families Project, 2007. ©The Peaceful Families Project 2006. The definitive and edited version of this article is published in Domestic Violence in Muslim Families. Www.peacefulfamilies.org.
• Media, Public Opinion, and Peace Conditionalities in Post-Conflict Afghanistan (with M. Qasim), a substudy for a Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands) research project funded by the UK Department for International Development, 2006.
• Cultured Men, Uncultured Women: The Gendered Hierarchy of Taste Governing Local Afghan Radio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MSc thesis, 2005.
• No Longer Behind Closed Doors: Violence against women, UN Chronicle. Volume XLII, Issue 3, 2005.
• Gender Advocacy in Afghanistan, Issues 1 through 6 (with M. Qasim), UNIFEM Afghanistan, 2005 (founder/editor).
• Disconnected from Discourse: Women's Radio Listening in Rural Samangan, Afghanistan, MIT Rosemarie Rogers Working Paper #26, June 2004: also published in English, Dari, and Pashto in the Media Monitor by Internews Afghanistan, March 2004.
• Border checks in the US.  A blog post on being an Iranian-Chinese Canadian student and the changes in policy on entering the US in 2003.
• Anja Keh Zanan Pezeshk Nadarand (with M. Shahbazi, hardcopy only), Dari translation/adaptation of the Hesperian Foundation's Where Women Have no Doctor for distribution among Afghan women healthworkers, available from the Humanitarian Assistance to the Women and Children of Afghanistan (www.hawca.org), 2002.

Contact  

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