In order to support the education of Afghan women, the Association Arghosha Faraway Schools and the Geneva Graduate Institute have partnered to offer scholarships to Afghan women students admitted to a master programme at the Institute. These scholarships are awarded without distinction of ethnic origin or religion.

Introductory remarks:

• 18:30 - 18:35: Marie-Laure Salles, Director, Geneva Graduate Institute
• 18:35 - 18:50: Marco Niada, President and Co-founder of Arghosha Faraway Schools
• 18:50 - 19:05: Filippo Grandi, Co-founder of Arghosha Faraway Schools and UN High Commissioner for Refugees 

Discussion:

• 19:05 - 19:30: Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi, Lecturer, Columbia University and the American University in Afghanistan (in exile), Woman from post-Taliban Afghanistan back to Taliban Afghanistan
• 19:30 - 19:45: Questions and answers

This event will be moderated by Alessandro Monsutti, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.

More information about the Maria Rosario Lazzati Niada scholarship.

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Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi, PhD Columbia University, is a Lecturer at Columbia University where she teaches courses on socio-political phenomenon such as climate change, environment and gender. She is the author of Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan published by Stanford University Press in 2021 (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32774) based on fieldwork in women’s shelters in Kabul. The book received widely favorable academic reviews and is a winner of many awards including the prestigious Fatima Mernissi Award presented by the Middle Eastern Studies Association for outstanding scholarship. Her forthcoming book Sacred Environmentalisms: Gender and Climate Change in Afghanistan presents original and interdisciplinary scholarship on socio-ecological challenges connecting gender, health, economics, politics, and the environment.  Her presentation will centre on the promises and multifarious challenges of education in past and present Afghanistan.