Jamila Raqib

Activist Type

Peace

Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, is a leading advocate for nonviolent action. Raqib represents the Albert Einstein Institution at gatherings like the Oslo Freedom Forum and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, where she champions a pragmatic approach to activism. At the age of five, Raqib and her family escaped Soviet oppression in Afghanistan, an experience that deeply informed her commitment to promoting peaceful resistance.

With a BA in Management from Simmons College and a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, Raqib explores how technology and education can amplify the impact of nonviolent movements. Since 2002, she has collaborated closely with renowned scholar Gene Sharp to develop the nonviolent strategies featured in Self-Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression.

Artwork by

Hangama Amiri

Amiri works predominantly in textiles to examine notions of home, as well as how gender, social norms, and larger geopolitical conflict impact the daily lives of women, both in Afghanistan and in the diaspora. Continuing to use textiles as the medium, Amiri searches to define, explore, and question these spaces.

Afghanistan

Capital

Kabul

Founded

July 22, 1747

Demonym

Afghan