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

Dreaming the Path - Ontological Shifts in a Sufi Order in Afghanistan. 2024. In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (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)

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. Vol 4, No. 2, Oct. 2021

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

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.