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Elham Gharji
Elham Gharji is a researcher of Central Asia and Afghanistan’s politics and security and former president of Gawharshad University in Kabul. He has been a Marie Curie doctoral fellow at Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in Portugal where he recently completed a PhD dissertation on regional order and the international politics of the post-Soviet space. Prior to that, Elham worked in the department of regional cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.