Queen's University Belfast - Taliban Turbans and The Smartphone.

Jan 24 2025 32 ep. 45 mins 2
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SERIES 2, EPISODE 3 “Emirate versus Khilafat –the ISKP critique of the Taliban”

Mar 06 2023 34 mins  
Podcast series on Afghanistan, presented by Prof. Michael Semple with Tamim Asey. For researchers of the Taliban, the ISKP campaign is significant not just because of the horrendous violence, but because it deploys Islamist rhetoric and reasoning against the Taliban. Perhaps much of the Taliban leadership worries more about what ISKP says about them than they would worry about any

Series 3, Episode 2– “How inclusive is the Islamic Emirate? - Who are the men running the Taliban’s administration?”

Mar 14 2024 67 mins  
The report submitted to the UN Security Council by Special Coordinator Feridun Sinirlioghlu laid out a plan for national dialogue and talks to achieve an inclusive national administration, as well as restoring women’s rights. The plan thus doubles down on inclusivity as one of the prerequisites for normalising Afghanistan’s relations with the international community. But the Ta

Taliban turbans and smartphones - Season 3, Episode 6

Jun 17 2024 42 mins  
Doha 3 Conference – Opportunity or distraction”. In this episode, we discuss the manoeuvring around the UN-led Doha 3 conference planned for 30 June and 1 July, exploring the challenges of advancing political dialogue while the Emirate leadership rules out compromise on rights and political participation.

Taliban turbans and smartphones - Season 4, Episode 1

Jan 24 2025 49 mins  
Season 4, Episode 1 - “Emirate Studies – what every Talib is meant to know about their movement”. We discuss a new book, entitled Emirate Studies and published in Pashto. It is written by a Taliban member of the insurgency-era Culture Commission. Emirate Studies presents the latest official Taliban’s perspective of Afghan history, the anti-Soviet jihad, the post-2001 insurg

Taliban Turbans and smart phones - Episode 7, Series 3

Aug 26 2024 44 mins  
“Speaking up and pushing back – is there space for civic resistance in Afghanistan?” The episode considers recent examples of Afghans in the country who have criticised Taliban policies and their Islamic Emirate or protested against them. We have assumed for a while that engaging in public criticism is well nigh impossible under Taliban authoritarianism. Do recent signs of u

Taliban turbans and smartphones

May 31 2023 38 mins  
Series 2, Episode 8. Do the Taliban have an economic policy and if so, what is it? We try to make sense of what the Taliban have been doing to the Afghan economy, piecing together their economic policy. They aspire to a form of self-reliance, which they have pursued through revenue collection. But they are more focused on rewarding members for their jihad than growing the economy.

Taliban turbans and smartphones

May 11 2023 42 mins  
Series 2, Episode 7. Is there internal dissent in the Taliban Movement and does it matter? We address the Islamic Emirate’s internal politics, considering the factional tussles and differences over ideology and tactics within the movement. What does these differences and perspectives between the Taliban factions tell us about the prospects for a change in the Emirate’s hard-li

Taliban turbans and smartphones

Apr 28 2023 49 mins  
Series 2, Episode 6 - The evolving role of the Taliban's Amir, from state capture to state transformation? Starting with a look at Haibatollah's Eid message, we reflect on the Amir's increasing direct involvement in appointments and decisions and ask whether the Taliban have progressed from capturing the Afghan state to transforming it.

Taliban turbans and smartphones

Apr 06 2023 35 mins  
Season 2, Episode 5. In this episode, Michael and Tamim discuss the implications of the Islamic Emirate extending its ban on women's work to the United Nations' Afghan employees

Taliban turbans and smartphones

Feb 23 2023 28 mins  
Season 2, Episode 2: The Qosh Tippa canal project – threat to ethnic harmony or doomed vanity project?” The Taliban Movement is basically famous for two things – for waging armed jihad and for imposing an austere moral code. Today we try to explain how this Islamist Movement has involved itself in digging a canal across the plains of northern Afghanistan. The Qosh Tippa Cana