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Firozi, Sayed Mohammad. 2025. “A Reflection on the Failure of the First Renovation Process in Afghanistan (A Sociological Analysis of Shah Amanullah Khan’s Failed Modernization Efforts in Afghanistan).” SustainE 1 (2): 105–17.

Abstract Afghanistan has twice embarked on significant modernization efforts, both of which ended in failure and continue to shape the country’s ongoing crises. The first failure occurred during the Amani period, when clergy and religious groups rebelled against reforms, while the second failure emerged with … more info
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Bolat, Demet. 2026. “Deneyimin Peşinde, Deneyimin İçinde: Feminist Bir Deneyim Epistemolojisi için Arayışlar.” [Tracing Experience, Staying with Experience: Inquiries Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Experience]. In Feminist Bilim Felsefesi, edited by Güler Cansu Ağören. Doruk Yayınları. ISBN 9786258704136

Abstract Pozitivist bilim idealine içkin nesnellik anlayışı göz önünde bulundurulduğunda feminist bilim kavramının oksimoron olduğu düşünülebilir. Nihayetinde bu ideal bilimsel bilginin konumsuz bilgi olduğu yönünde normatif bir önkabul üzerine kuruludur ve açıkça konumlanmış feminist bilgi iddialarının bilimselliği bu çerçeve içerisinde anlamlandırılamaz. Öte yandan feminist bilim … more info
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Shahabadi, Akbar Zare, Mohammad Bay Basharat Rahamani, and Sayed Mohammad Firozi. 2025. “A Critical Assessment of the Cultural Consequences of US Presence in Afghanistan (2001–2021).” Kardan Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 8 (2): 115–35.

Abstract The primary objective of this study is to critically examine the cultural impacts of the U.S. and allied presence in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. Utilizing a critical paradigm and a qualitative research approach, this study explores the perspectives of Afghan cultural and social … more info
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Kananovich, Uladzimir. 2025. “In the Signs of the End Days: Eschatological Concerns of the Ruthenian Publisher Francis Skaryna on the Threshold of the Early Modern Period.” Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history) 111 (1): 37–71.

Abstract This article seeks to explain the printing activities of Doctor Francis Skaryna through the prism of the eschatological tensions at the turn of the sixteenth century. By focusing on Skaryna’s prints, including the Ruthenian Bible of Prague (1517–1519), Malaia Padarozhnaia Kniha, Liber Viaticus [The … more info
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Firozi, Sayed Mohammad, Ali Juma Hamdard, and Mohammad Bay Besharat Rahmani. 2025. “The Role of Tourism in Social Integration in Afghanistan.” Conhecer: Debate entre o Público e o Privado 15 (34): 148–64.

Abstract The main aim of this research has been to sociologically examine the role of tourism in promoting social convergence in Afghanistan. The study is practical in terms of its goals and expected outcomes, resorting to a survey method with a descriptive-explanatory approach. The research … more info
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Kononchuk, Svitlana. 2025. “Plebiscite Engineering and Autocratisation in the Post-Soviet Region.” Ukraine Analytica Issue 3 (38): 3–11

Abstract It is widely recognised that top-down constitutional referendums in post-Soviet states reinforce the president’s power, at the expense of other branches of government. This article examines referendum engineering as a factor that undermines the balance of power, establishes a constitutional basis for long-lasting autocracies, … more info
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Firozi, Sayed Mohammad, Akbar Zareshahabadi, and Ali Juma Hamdard. 2025. “Social Factors Related to Iranians’ Attitude towards Afghan Immigrants Residing in Iran.” Estudos Internacionais: Revista de Relações Internacionais da PUC Minas 13 (1): 231–48.

Abstract This study investigates factors influencing Iranian citizens’ attitudes toward Afghan immigrants. It is an applied, large-scale research conducted through a survey using a descriptive-explanatory approach. Data were collected via a researcher-made Likert-scale questionnaire. The statistical population included Iranian citizens, with 384 participants selected through … more info
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Özbek, Egemen. “Commemorating the Armenian Genocide: Spatial Politics of Memory in Post-Imperial Istanbul.” In Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915, edited by Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Ronald Grigor Suny, 238–258. Routledge, 2023.

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Nations, as imagined communities, rely on their members’ sense of unity and belonging with people whom they do not know. Similarly, national memory is sustained by the sense that they have a shared past with these people as a result of belonging to the … more info