Naz Karim

Supervisors: Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich, Caroline Bennett and Amir Sayadabdi

Scheherazade in the Theatre of War: A Study of Everyday Violence Through the Narratives of Ordinary Afghanistani Women

Nazi Karim is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her current research explores the violence of everyday life, from direct and indirect violence to the embodied and invisible gendered experience of violence, with a specific ethnographic focus on current experiences of Afghanistani women under the Taliban regime.

Prior to this, Naz has conducted ethnographic research with street working children of Kabul in Afghanistan and has also served as a Lecturer at Gawharshad University. Her journey as a researcher and academic is inspired by her lived experience in Afghanistan alongside years of working with women and children of Afghanistan in humanitarian fields within war and conflict zones.

PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology

Supervisors: Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich, Caroline Bennett and Amir Sayadabdi

Scheherazade in the Theatre of War: A Study of Everyday Violence Through the Narratives of Ordinary Afghanistani Women

Nazi Karim is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her current research explores the violence of everyday life, from direct and indirect violence to the embodied and invisible gendered experience of violence, with a specific ethnographic focus on current experiences of Afghanistani women under the Taliban regime.

Prior to this, Naz has conducted ethnographic research with street working children of Kabul in Afghanistan and has also served as a Lecturer at Gawharshad University.

Her journey as a researcher and academic is inspired by her lived experience in Afghanistan alongside years of working with women and children of Afghanistan in humanitarian fields within war and conflict zones.