Omar Sadr and Anna Larson discuss a new book titled Power and Authority in Afghanistan. Published by I.B. Tauris in 2025, “Power and Authority in Afghanistan: Rethinking Politics, Intervention, and Rule” tackles some …
The Taliban Courts and Legal System
Omar Sadr and Adam Baczko discuss the Taliban courts and how their legal outlook provided them a breakthrough in the conflict. Originally published in French and recently translated into English by Oxford University Press in …
Prospects of a Secular State in the Muslim World
Abdullahi An-Naim and Omar Sadr discuss why and how Muslims should embrace universal values of human rights and constitutionalism. They also talk about how a secular state creates a neutral public space where multiple religious …
Liberalism Against Itself
Samuel Moyn and Omar Sadr discuss failures of Cold War liberalism and the challenges of contemporary liberalism. Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Trained in modern European intellectual …
Being a Refugee Scholar in America
Omar Sadr discusses how refugee academics navigated the American academia with Halil Yenigun and Alfred Babo. Alfred is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fairfield University, Connecticut. Halil is the Associate Director of the Abbasi …
Persecution & Exile: Status of Afghanistan’s Academia under the Taliban
Omar Sadr discusses the status of Afghanistan’s academia under the Taliban with Haroon Mutasem and Qasim Wafayezada. Haroon Mutasem is a Philip Schwartz Initiative fellow at the Law School of Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. …
Academic Freedom and Scholars in Exile
Omar Sadr discusses the status of scholars in exile with Dr Mirwais Balkhi and Dr Bashir Mobasher. As we are getting close to the second anniversary of the Negotiating Ideas Podcast in July and the …
Secularism and Islam
Omar Sadr and Nader Hashemi discuss Islam and democracy. Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. …
History and Antisemitism
Omar Sadr and Barnett Rubin discuss Jews history, antisemitism and Zionism. Barnett R. Rubin is a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Quincy Institute Responsible Statecraft and …
Lior Sternfeld on controversies in universities on the Israel-Palestine war
Omar Sadr and Lior Sternfeld discuss the recent controversies in the American campus on the war in Gaza LIOR STERNFELD is a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of …