Mariam Banahi

With long dark hair, wearing a long sleeve blue dress and glasses, Mariam Banahi, the author, is seated on an iron bench outside by a waterway; she's facing the camera with a big smile.
About the Author

Mariam Banahi holds a doctorate in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University. Her first book project, Between War and the World: Afghans, Borders, and the ‘Crisis’ of Migration in Hamburg is an ethnographic exploration of kinship, chronic refugeeness, and everyday life in exile based on over two years of fieldwork in Germany and Kabul, Afghanistan. In 2020, Banahi held a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows award and also served as adjunct instructor in Culture and Politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is currently an independent scholar.