Najam Abbas

Dr. Najam Abbas is a Senior Fellow with EastWest Institute focusing on Central and South Asia. He analyzes media and human development issues in the South and Central Asian context. In 1998, he completed his PhD from Tajik National University, based on his post-graduate research on Kazakhstan’s Post-Independence Press at the Kazakh State University in Almaty (1994-97). He has worked for the University of Central Asia during 1999-2002. Earlier, Dr. Abbas was part of the Crisis and Conflict Analysis Team at the Institute for Strategic Studies, Islamabad analyzing both the early roots and later implications of the Afghan crisis (1986 to 1991). Dr. Abbas appears regularly on BBC’s South and Central Asian services as well as on Aljazeera Arabic and English news channels. Dr. Abbas is fluent in Russian, and is conversant in Arabic and Persian/Tajik languages.