Rahman Mohammadi is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. His research has previously focused on British Imperialism, Afghanistan, and state formation in the nineteenth century. He is researching into the intellectual life of Abdul Ali Mazari, a Hazara resistance leader during the Soviet Occupation and Afghan Civil War, and Hazara political thought during the 1980s and 1990s. Rahman has previously worked for Turquoise Mountain, an NGO working predominantly in Afghanistan, and the United Nations Mine Action Service based in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a researcher at the University of Oxford Politics and International Relations Department and the Islamic Human Rights Commission. rahman.mohammadi@history.ox.ac.uk