Jawad Sukhanyar

Jawad Sukhanyar is a former New York Times reporter. He worked as a journalist for major news organizations in Afghanistan, where he reported for The New York Times for 8 years. He was also a freelance journalist who wrote analytical pieces for various outlets including the Eurasia Review. Jawad was a Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in the class of 2019. In 2015, he also served as a Senior Journalists Seminar fellow at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center. In early 2020, he served as a media adviser in the office of the first vice president of Afghanistan. In August 2021, after the fall of Kabul, he and his family moved to the United States and resettled in Ann Arbor Michigan. While in Michigan, Jawad served as a Journalist-in-residence at Donia Human Rights Center of the International Institute at the University of Michigan for the academic year 2021-22 where he worked on his project, “Afghanistan Post-US withdrawal, Afghan peace process and the fate of press freedom," Working on this project, his main focus was to examine the outcomes of a hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan and whether it could have been done differently. As part of his research, he looked into the Afghan peace process which led to a dead-end after the Taliban took over the country and formed their interim government. Jawad has a BA in Political Science from Goa University and a MA from Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Courses:

• Global Threats to Press Freedom
• Examining the Media's Role in the Rise and Fall of Democracies