Rajab Taieb is a research associate in the Department Knowledge in Transition at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute. He joined the GEI in June 2022 and is researching on gender construct in Afghanistan’s school textbooks and novels (2001-2021).
Rajab Taieb has a bachelor degree in English Language from the University of Bamyan-Afghanistan. He has also completed a master’s degree in International Relations (Politics and Security-Central Asia) at the OSCE Academy based in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz republic.
In 2015, after completing his studies at the University of Bamyan, he joined the International Assistance Mission (IAM), as a media officer. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as a journalist for TOLOnews, and as a training consultant for a counter-terrorism project implemented by Coffey International Development. From 2021 to 2022, he has worked as a researcher at the Institute of War and Peace Studies (IWPS), a think-tank based in Kabul. Recently, he was also working as head of TOLOnews’ Online Department.
Research
- Ethnic politics
- Security
- Peace
- Education
Current Project
Publications
Monographs:
- An Introduction to Elements of Short Fictions, 2014, University of Bamyan.
- The Impacts of the 1979 Soviet Invasion on Ethnic Politics in Afghanistan, 2020, OSCE Academy.
Papers:
- Asey, Tamim; Taieb, Rajab; Jami, Maryam (2022): Militias: A Double-Edged Sword, NED and IWPS.
- Taieb, Rajab (2020): The Right Time for the Right Change in Afghanistan, OSCE Academy, Policy Brief #64. www.osce-academy.net/upload/file/PB_64.pdf.
- Taieb, Rajab; Rizwan, Alamuddin; Jami, Maryam (2021): Reluctant Reentrance? Russia and Afghanistan Post 2021, FES and IWPS. library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kabul/18642.pdf.
- Taieb, Rajab; Jami, Maryam; Rizwan, Alamuddin (2021): A change in policy or inevitability? Afghanistan and Central Asiaʿs relationship after NATOʿs withdrawal, FES & IWPS. library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kabul/18636.pdf.
- Jami, Maryam; Rizwan, Alamuddin; Taieb, Rajab (2021): Sino-Afghan security relations beyond 2021, FES & IWPS. library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kabul/18638.pdf.
- Jami, Maryam; Rizwan, Alamuddin; Taieb, Rajab: Mending fences? Iran and Afghanistan adjust to a new security environment, FES & IWPS. library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kabul/18637.pdf.
- Rizwan, Alamuddin; Taieb, Rajab; Jami, Maryam (2021): : Reset or rivalry? India and Afghanistan post-2021, FES & IWPS. library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kabul/18727.pdf.
- Rizwan, Alamuddin; Taieb, Rajab; Jami, Maryam (2021): Revival of a favourable Afghanistan? Security relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan beyond 2021, FES & IWPS.
- Asey, Tamim; Erfani, Mohammad; Ahmadi, Esmatullah; Jahes, Saleh; Rizwan, Alamuddin; Taieb, Rajab (2021): Security Sector Reform for Peace: A Roadmap to Economization, Fiscal Sustainability and Restructuring of the Afghan Army Security Forces Post Peace Settlement, NED & IWPS. iwps.org.af/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Security-Sector-Reform-for-Peace.pdf.
- Taieb, Rajab, A Night to Happiness, novel book (2017).
