Cynthia Farid
@cf364
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Full time flâneuse with some interest in law and history. Cornell, Wisconsin, Hong Kong, Global Young Academy.
Hong Kong
Joined August 2013
Super excited and privileged to be a coauthor with Dr. Shahdeen Malik, one of my wonderful mentors, on the Constitution of Bangladesh: A Contextual Analysis to be published 2022/2023 by @hartpublishing as part of the Hart Series on Constitutional Systems of the World.
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Pleased to report that among the many hats I wear, I am now affiliated as a Research Associate with the Center for Asian Studies in Africa (CASA) @CAsianSAfricaUP at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. I’ve always been interested in transregional Global South research and I
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What the research degree has taught me:. 1. You’re contributing to a field of knowledge (whatever that may be). 2. The task is both collective and intergenerational and not about who came first or who discovered something or gets credit for it. So, be humble. Your work is a.
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I’m thrilled to be serving on the editorial board of Constitutional Studies with so many wonderful scholars. Constitutional Studies prioritises engagement with scholars from diverse geographic and topical research areas on constitutional democracy, formal and informal.
Constitutional Studies is thrilled to relaunch this year as an #international, #multilingual, #OpenAccess journal, published by @ccpconstitute and @iacl_aidc. First reissue out this June! Read more at and follow us to get future issues and updates.
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English version of my op ed in Prothom Alo on political parties in Bangladesh. What are political parties for? Who speaks for the people? | Prothom Alo
en.prothomalo.com
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My piece in Prothom Alo on political parties in Bangladesh. The English version will also be up later this week. রাষ্ট্র ও রাজনীতিতে জনগণের হিস্যা কোথায় | প্রথম আলো
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প্রায় সব রাজনৈতিক দলই অভ্যন্তরীণ দলীয় কার্যক্রমের দিক থেকে গণতান্ত্রিক নয়। নেতৃত্ব প্রায়ই বংশগত বা দীর্ঘদিন ধরে একচেটিয়াভাবে ধরে রাখা হয়।
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RT @PikettyWIL: Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY wri….
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In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
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Something different to what I usually write about. Review of the film Jaya and Sharmin published in the Daily Star. Produced by Jaya Ahsan.
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Jaya and Sharmin—a film produced by Jaya Ahsan—is a quiet reminder of who we were and still are, five years after the pandemic struck. In this quiet, haunting two-woman film, the pandemic is never
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This guy is a known war criminal. He is now out. We can blame the court all we want now but the Hasina regime did this by tainting the war crimes trials to begin with during her tenure. I’m yet to read the judgment but if I had to hazard a guess, he’s likely getting out because
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It didn’t take long at all to descend into the very thing they were advocating against.
There will be no escape for those who conspire against the country!.Legal action can be taken even for secret meetings, provocative processions, or posts. (Admin)
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RT @TheDavidBergman: This is shocking. On Monday, in an amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, the #Bangladesh government set out what “banni….
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Snippets from my talk “Bangladesh: Constitutional Experiments in an Aid Lab”.(Title h/t: @nomhossain).Grateful to my hosts @YaleSouthAsia and Prof Rohit De @itihaasnaama for the invite.
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RT @ChristopherMRWS: "It is often asserted that human rights discourse and practice principally originated following the Second World War,….
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