Aftab Pasha

Aftab Kamal Pasha, M.A. (Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science), M.Phil., Ph.D., retired as a Professor from JNU in 2021. He has previously taught at the Centre of West Asian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India; Cairo University; and AUC, Egypt. He has been a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He has served as Chairperson and Director, Gulf Studies Program (GSP), at Centre for West Asian Studies (CWAS), School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has also been Director, Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture, Embassy of India, Cairo, Egypt. He is associated with the Gulf Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has been to the St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA as Visiting Professor under Fulbright Scheme. His research, teaching, and writing focused on West Asia and North Africa, and he has authored, edited, co-edited over thirty books on India, Gulf, West Asia, and North Africa, and contributed chapters to over hundred edited books. He has contributed over hundred research articles to several national and international journals. He is associated in different capacities with several national and international journals.