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Omar Sadr

Dr Omar Sadr is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University of Afghanistan. His primary research interests include challenges of pluralistic coexistence, democratic governance, and the politics of Afghanistan. He has been an advocate of political reform, constitutionalism, and pluralism in Afghanistan. Dr Sadr holds a PhD (2018) from South Asian University, a university established by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations. Sadr’s most recent book, Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan, published by Routledge, won a 2022 book prize for Best Book in Social Science from the Central Eurasian Studies Society. It examines the pathological homogenizing state and challenges of peaceful coexistence in a pluralistic society. His work has appeared on platforms such as Fair Observer, The Atlantic Council, and The National Interest. He also appears regularly on BBC Persian, Afghanistan International, and ToloNews. He founded the Negotiating Ideas Podcast where he discusses political ideas on peace, democracy, and pluralism.

Sadr has received numerous fellowships including the MESA Global Academy Fellowship at the Middle East Studies Association, the Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowship at the Institute of International Education, and a CAMCA fellowship at the Rumsfeld Foundation and Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He is also a member of The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School in New York.

ARTICLES BY Omar Sadr

  • Gender Apartheid and Cultural Relativism under the Taliban and Iranian Regimes

    Gender Apartheid and Cultural Relativism under the Taliban and Iranian Regimes

    Mass deprivation and transgression of women’s rights and the establishment of gender apartheid are often presented as a reflection of cultural and ideological norms and assumptions. This does not suggest that certain cultures are more prone to gender apartheid than others; rather, a state or act..

  • Scholars in Context: Omar Sadr

    Scholars in Context: Omar Sadr

    My current research explores the crisis of liberalism, democracy, and pluralist coexistence with a particular focus on Afghanistan. I am trying to understand why Afghanistan’s democratic experiment from 2001 to 2021 failed so miserably.