Minaam Reyaz Shah
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships |
| Project Title: | N.A. |
| Field of Study: | International Affairs |
| Home Institution: | Freelance Journalist and Geo-political commentator, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Host Institution: | Tufts University , Medford, MA |
| Grant Start Month: | August 2023 |
| Duration of Grant: | Two years |
Brief Bio:
Mr. Minaam Shah obtained his master’s degree in politics and international relations from the University of Kashmir and is a full-time freelance journalist based out of Kashmir. He has completed courses in social entrepreneurship and modern diplomacy, and his work has been regularly featured in the Foreign Policy magazine, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and The Diplomat, among others.
Mr. Shah’s writing career began when he joined an acclaimed news portal, The Kashmir Walla in 2020. After a brief stint there, he started covering the refugee beat for several international publications and has written on the issues of refugees, forced migrations, and displaced communities in South Asia, including the Afghans, the Rohingyas, and the Tibetans.
Before joining journalism, Mr. Shah published regular commentary for a U.S. magazine The National Interest, where he closely followed the broad contours of U.S. policy towards South Asia. In addition, Mr. Shah helped set up the publication and communication verticals of a European think tank.
During his Fulbright-Nehru Master’s fellowship, Mr. Shah is pursuing graduate studies in international relations at Tufts university. He believes this program will equip him with a multidisciplinary approach to optimally analyze issues of forced migration and displacement. Furthermore, he is confident this fellowship will help him realize his objective of building spaces for solution-based journalism and of adding new perspectives to policy research on global refugee crises.