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My comments on the role of media as the panel moderator on coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in independent and mainstream media. This event was held on September 7 organized by Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) and the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) razarumi.com
Floods in Pakistan Have Destroyed Millions of Lives But Politicians Are Fighting Raza Rumi in conversation with Amina Saqib razarumi.com
Raza Ahmad Rumi is a policy analyst, journalist and an author. Currently he is Director, Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College. He is also Visiting Faculty at Cornell Institute for Public Affairs and has taught earlier at New York University. Rumi has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and the National Endowment for Democracy. He remains a nonresident fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. As a journalist, Raza is editor Daily Times (Pakistan). Earlier he worked with The Friday Times, Pakistan's foremost liberal weekly paper as a writer and an editor for a decade. Raza is also a commentator for several publications in South Asia and beyond. In Pakistan, he also worked in the broadcast media as an analyst and hosted talk shows at Capital TV and Express News. Raza was also a Director at Jinnah Institute, a public policy think tank and Executive Director of Justice Network- a coalition of NGOs. Prior to his foray into journalism and public affairs, Raza worked at the Asian Development Bank as a Governance Specialist. His areas of focus included decentralization, access to justice, institutional development and led projects in several South and Southeast Asian countries. At ADB, he also edited two publications on public administration and participatory budget making. Later, as an international development professional, Raza has also worked on designing and implementing projects for UK’s Department For International Development, UNDP, UNICEF World Bank, among others. Until recently, Raza also led the Network for Asia Pacific Schools & Institutes of Public Administration and Governance. His academic papers have covered areas such as federalism, public policy choices, access to justice, citizen rights, etc. Raza’s work as a public policy practitioner builds on his stint with the Government of Pakistan’s Administrative Service and United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo where he acted as a municipal administrator in charge of local governance. In 1994, he entered the Pakistani civil service after topping the countrywide competitive examination. He holds a bachelors and masters degree from London School of Economics. His journalism related work, especially broadcast mass media, brought him under the surveillance of Islamists and their patrons in Pakistan. A militia linked to Taliban attacked Raza in March 2014. He narrowly survived the assassination attempt but his driver died. Thereafter, he moved to the United States. He is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveler, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and Identity and Faith and Conflict. His most recent collection of essays Being Pakistani: Society Culture and the Arts was published in June 2018 by Harper Collins, India. The Mahomedali Habib Distinguished Lecture on Pakistan is named in honor of one of the leading figures in the history of the Habib family. In addition to successfully guiding the Habib family’s transition from India to Pakistan following independence in 1947, Mahomedali Habib laid the foundations for the House of Habib, a group of powerful business and financial companies. The group has a long-standing history of philanthropy and social service and is currently leading the establishment of Habib University, a liberal arts and sciences university, in Pakistan which aims to bridge the gap between global academia and Pakistan. Toward honoring the legacy of Mahomedali Habib – who was distinguished by his love for Pakistan and his deep commitment to education and philanthropy – the Habib family has decided to endow an annual lecture series in his name. Through this lecture series the Habib family aims to improve and diversify conversations about Pakistan in the United States as well as create opportunities for US and Pakistan-based scholars to dialogue. razarumi.com
Democracy, Constitution and the Role of Civil Society| With Pervez Hoodbhoy razarumi.com
"You Are Not A Muslim": Religious Liberty in Peril in Pakistan. A talk held with Raza Rumi at Princeton University on October 17, 2014. razarumi.com
Naya Daur editor and Sapan founding member Raza Rumi presented the closing remarks. Joining from Ithaca, NY, where he teaches journalism, he outlined three main points of agreement from the discussion: 1. Solidarity between Southasian workers and their representative organisations given the commonality of issues; 2. A visa-free regime in the region for the worker representatives, as well as all citizens to meet; 3. More research and cross learning and sharing of experiences and strategies across the region.
The Imran Khan led PTI government crumpled in a matter of days as the military decided to withdraw its support for Khan. Khan’s failed economic policies are a major cause of the current economic crisis and his rift with the establishment. This rift finally came to limelight in October when a disagreement emerged between Khan and the military over the issue of DG-ISI. This gave the opposition parties an opportunity to mend their ties with the establishment, paving the way for the first ever successful vote of no confidence which ousted Khan. In that way, one can term that the incumbent government is the first ever to have ousted a sitting PM through a constitutional process. It appears that all the institutions, including the Supreme Court, had decided to stand by the constitution this time. Despite his party being highly active in digital spaces with disinformation campaigns at a very massive scale, the future appears grim for Khan. Even if his demand for early elections is fulfilled, the chances of him winning a majority without the military’s support are very less. This is because Khan drives support mostly from a very narrow Urban middle class which alone cannot help him get to premiership once again. Raza Ahmad Rumi is a policy analyst, journalist and an author. He is Director, Park Center for Independent Media and teaches in the journalism department. He is also Visiting Faculty at Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. During 2015-2017, Raza was a scholar in residence at IC and taught courses in journalism and writing departments as well as at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. Raza has been a fellow at the New America Foundation and United States Institute of Peace. He is a member of think tank at Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University.
In 2021, I was nominated (by the students) to be the faculty speaker at the commencement ceremony by Cornell Institute for Public Affairs - CIPA which is now part of Brooks School of Public Policy. Here is what I said on issues of responsible citizenship, social change, global (in)equality and why our students are best equipped to change the world. As I said, seven years of teaching has been a life-changing experience for me. #teaching #PublicPolicy #PublicAffairs #CIPA razarumi.com
Pakistan's Constitution was recently violated many times. As part of a campaign to raise awareness about importance of the Constitution, we asked experts to weigh in. Here is what Raza Rumi have to say razarumi.com #RazaRumi #ConstitutionofPakistan
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