Mir H. (Hekmat) SADAT, PhD.

Washington, D.C. (USA)

Email: hsadat@yahoo.com

Topical Expertise: National Security Policy, Strategic Decision-Making, US Foreign Policy, Cultural Intelligence, Crisis/Conflict Management, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Civil-Military Affairs, and Negotiations and Diplomacy.

Geographical Expertise: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran

ACADEMIC PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

v “U.S.-Iran Engagement Through Afghanistan,” Middle East Policy 17, n.1 (2010).

v “The Strategic Context, Operational Doctrine, and Tactical Implications of U.S. Military Counter-Propaganda in Afghanistan,” (Submission under consideration).

v “U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Syria: Balancing Ideology versus National Interests,” Middle East Policy 16, n.2 (2009).

v “The Afghan Experience Reflected in Modern Afghan Fiction (1900-1992),” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28, no. 2 (2008).

v “Hyphenating Afghaniyat (Afghan-ness) in the Afghan Diaspora,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 28, n.3 (2008).

v “Societal Realities and Human Conditions Reflected in Hosseini’s The Kite Runner,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. (Submission accepted and publication forthcoming).

v “The Implementation of Constitutional Human Rights in Afghanistan,” The Human Rights Brief 11, no. 3 (2004). The Washington College of Law at American University.

v “Modern Education in Afghanistan,” Middle East Review of International Affairs 8, no. 4 (2004).

v “Equity and Afghan Women’s Education,” Human Rights Tribune 9, no. 2 (2002).

v “Thematic Content Analysis of the Afghan War Literature of Muhammad Asef Soltanzadeh,” (Submission under consideration).

v “A Historical Overview of Afghanistan.” In A Study Guide to the Riverhead Edition of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/kiterunnertg0110a.pdf

v “Afghanistan's Internal Refugees: Trapped at the Margins,” Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research 3, no. 1 (2002).

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

v “The Different Uses of Intelligence in COIN and CT efforts in Afghanistan.” Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. April 16, 2010.

v “U.S. Military Counter-Propaganda in Afghanistan.” Making Sense in Afghanistan: Interaction & Uncertainty in International Interventions, Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. April 9, 2010

v “Reflections of Psychological Trauma of War and Exile in Afghan Diasporic Literature.” at the Center for Near Eastern Studies. University of California, Los Angeles: Los Angeles, California. January 14, 2010.

v "The Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Region: The View from Washington." NESA (Near East South Asia) at National Defense University, May 22, 2009.

v “Human Security Condition in Iran.” Middle East & North Africa Division at The World Bank. November 8, 2008.

v “Contemporary Intelligence Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East.” The Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. October 23, 2008. Panel Discussant. “Challenges Facing Democratic Mongolia.” 9th Annual Conference of the

v Central Eurasian Studies Society. Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. Georgetown University. September 19, 2008

v “U.S. National Security and Islam.” Office of Directorate National Intelligence. Center of Academic Excellence, Washington, D.C. July 22, 2008.

v “The Role of Cultural Intelligence in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency.” Combating Terrorism Center. West Point (U.S. Military Academy), New York. May 9, 2007.

v “Afghan Diaspora: Imaginary Homeland and the Realities of Exile.” Religious Studies Department, College of Arts and Letters. San Diego State University: San Diego, California. April 25, 2007.

v “A Perspective into the state of the Afghan Diaspora.” Center for Near Eastern Studies. University of California, Los Angeles: Los Angeles, California. May 14, 2007.

v “The Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Implications of Integrating Cultural Awareness into Professional Military Education.” Presented a research paper to the Air Command and Staff College faculty, Air University: Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. 27 February 2006.

v Panel Discussant. “Explaining Ethnic Violence in South Asia.” 46th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Hawaii. March 2005.

v “Political History of Constitutional Development in Afghanistan.” The 2003 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference at the University of Utah. October 16-18, 2003.

v “Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The First Lessons from Economics and Investment.” 44th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Portland, Oregon. Feb. 25 - March 1, 2003.

v “Why Afghanistan? Missed Opportunities, New Possibilities.” University Conference. San Diego State University: San Diego, California. November 12, 2001.

v “Terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Claremont Graduate University Faculty Forum: Claremont, California. Fall 2001.

WORK CITED IN ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

v Azizi, Mohammad Najeeb, and Shoji Haruna. “What, How and Why Happened in Afghanistan? A Study of Political Economic History of the Early 20th Century.” Okayama Economic Review 38, no. 4 (2007).

v Laura Grenfell, “Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law in Timor Leste,” Leiden Journal of International Law 19, (2006).

v Hannibal Travis, “Freedom or Theocracy? Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights 3, (2005).

v Noah Feldman, Imposed Constitutionalism. Connecticut Law Review 37, (2005).

v Christine Hartmann, Leseportfolio für den Unterricht: Drachenläufer, edited by Marlies Koenen. Berlin: Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007.

v http://www.berlinverlage.de/media/downloads/Leseportfolio_Hosseini.pdf

v Rebecca Stuhr, 2009, Reading Khaled Hosseini, Colorado: Greenwood Press.

CONTRIBUTION ACKNOWLEDGED IN

v Michael Metrinko, 2008, The American Military Advisor: Dealing With Senior Foreign Officials In The Islamic World. Peacekeeping And Stability Operations Institute And Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College (August). https://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=869

v Khaled Hosseini, 2007, A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York: Riverhead.