Tasniem Anwar
Biographic Data
| ID | 382299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tasniem Anwar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tasniem |
| FAMILY NAME | Anwar |
| SIGNATURE | ANWAR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6110-9144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A critical reflection on the prosecution of Lafarge for terrorism financing and involvement in crimes against humanity
This article unpacks the criminal charges against the French cement company Lafarge for their complicity in crimes against humanity and terrorism financing during the war in Syria. We take these unique criminal proceedings as an opportunity to examine the relationship between corporate involvement in international crimes, terrorism financing, law and accountability. Through a qualitative analysis of media publications and court records, we recons…
The Politics of Repair in a Broken World
Much of the world is currently bearing witness to major transformations to the liberal-modern geopolitical order that has defined it for some time. Amid this crisis, an array of new political orientations have been adopted by the different actors now competing for the authority to establish the agendas that will shape our future. One such orientation is repair. Repair refers to a mode of political critique that reads our present malaise as the re…
Speculative citizenship
We develop the concept of speculative citizenship – the process of limiting citizenship rights based on speculation about future security risk – showing how counterterrorism measures make citizenship rights malleable in particular gendered and racialized ways. Moving beyond debates on citizenship deprivation or immigration, we focus on the curtailing of citizenship rights of full citizens accused of terrorist crimes. We analyse the legal proceedi…
The Techno-Legal Co-Production of Terrorist Suspects
From domestic lists to kill-lists deployed in counter-terrorism operations, lists have been a central tool in tracing, targeting and identifying terrorist suspects. Such lists increasingly make use of algorithms and surveillance technologies, quickly filtering through vast amounts of data in a promise of providing more accurate and almost real-time updates on the terrorist threats. In this article, we empirically study how different lists in dome…
Spooky secrets
This article investigates the temporal and material relations of secrecy and revelation through the lens of haunting. Critical security scholars have contributed to a deeper understanding of (state) secrecy by unpacking the material and discursive practices that conceal, reveal, or expose information, showing that there is no linear process from secrecy to transparency and accountability. In this article, I contribute to this literature by develo…
The Courtroom as Four Landscapes
In the past decade, Western European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France have seen a sharp increase in terrorism trials. Studying these trials can provide unique insights into which terrorist offences come before the court and what legal challenges arise from this relatively novel practice. To unpack the complexity of terrorism trials, we adopt an empirical approach to terrorism trials. Based on 3 years of extensive ethn…
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria
This article examines the political and legal controversies around a counterterrorism programme conducted by the Dutch government to support the so-called moderate groups in Syria between 2015 and 2018. The controversies centred around the question how the Dutch government was able to define and support armed moderate groups in Syria and distinguish them from terrorist organizations. The objective of the article is to take up this question and un…
Guilty knowledge
This article studies practices of knowledge production during counterterrorism financing court cases in European courts. Developments in international law have contributed to novel regulations to criminalise and prosecute the funding of terrorism in advance of terrorist violence. In this study, we study how court cases have become important spaces for contesting and evaluating multiple knowledge claims on terrorist threat and suspicion by analysi…
Time will tell
Calculating the potential risk of future terrorist violence is at the core of counter-terrorism practices. Particularly in court cases, this potential risk serves as legitimization for the preemptive criminalization of suspicious (financial) behaviour. This article argues that the preemptive temporality seen in such court cases is a practice of ‘sorting time’ and producing distinct legal definitions around future violence. Building on postcolonia…
From contestation to conviction
This article asks how terrorism expertise has been mobilized in recent trials on terrorism financing. How is expert knowledge concerning ongoing and complex political situations involving alleged terrorism translated into factual evidence before a court of law? What kind of sources do courts use in terrorism cases, and what kind of expert knowledge is acknowledged or ignored? Through analysis of concrete cases under the United Kingdom (UK) Terror…
Colonial Aftermaths
This review discusses two novel contributions to a post-colonial understanding of geopolitics in the Middle-East: “Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony” by Sara Salem and “Embodying geopolitics: Generations of women’s activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon” by Nicola Pratt. Both books analyse the economy, rules, political institutions, societal dynamics and popular resistance through a post-colonial lens, showing the importa…
Unfolding the Past, Proving the Present
During terrorism trials, social media activities such as tweeting, Facebook posts, and WhatsApp conversations have become an essential part of the evidence presented. Amidst the complexity of prosecuting crimes with limited possibilities for criminal investigations and evidence collection, social media interactions can provide valuable information to reconstruct events that occurred there-and-then, to prosecute in the here-and-now. This paper fol…
Unfolding the Past, Proving the Present
During terrorism trials, social media activities such as tweeting, Facebook posts, and WhatsApp conversations have become an essential part of the evidence presented. Amidst the complexity of prosecuting crimes with limited possibilities for criminal investigations and evidence collection, social media interactions can provide valuable information to reconstruct events that occurred there-and-then, to prosecute in the here-and-now. This paper fol…
Guilty knowledge
This article studies practices of knowledge production during counterterrorism financing court cases in European courts. Developments in international law have contributed to novel regulations to criminalise and prosecute the funding of terrorism in advance of terrorist violence. In this study, we study how court cases have become important spaces for contesting and evaluating multiple knowledge claims on terrorist threat and suspicion by analysi…
Time will tell
Calculating the potential risk of future terrorist violence is at the core of counter-terrorism practices. Particularly in court cases, this potential risk serves as legitimization for the preemptive criminalization of suspicious (financial) behaviour. This article argues that the preemptive temporality seen in such court cases is a practice of ‘sorting time’ and producing distinct legal definitions around future violence. Building on postcolonia…
From contestation to conviction
This article asks how terrorism expertise has been mobilized in recent trials on terrorism financing. How is expert knowledge concerning ongoing and complex political situations involving alleged terrorism translated into factual evidence before a court of law? What kind of sources do courts use in terrorism cases, and what kind of expert knowledge is acknowledged or ignored? Through analysis of concrete cases under the United Kingdom (UK) Terror…
The Courtroom as Four Landscapes
In the past decade, Western European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France have seen a sharp increase in terrorism trials. Studying these trials can provide unique insights into which terrorist offences come before the court and what legal challenges arise from this relatively novel practice. To unpack the complexity of terrorism trials, we adopt an empirical approach to terrorism trials. Based on 3 years of extensive ethn…
Unfolding the Past, Proving the Present
During terrorism trials, social media activities such as tweeting, Facebook posts, and WhatsApp conversations have become an essential part of the evidence presented. Amidst the complexity of prosecuting crimes with limited possibilities for criminal investigations and evidence collection, social media interactions can provide valuable information to reconstruct events that occurred there-and-then, to prosecute in the here-and-now. This paper fol…
Time will tell
Calculating the potential risk of future terrorist violence is at the core of counter-terrorism practices. Particularly in court cases, this potential risk serves as legitimization for the preemptive criminalization of suspicious (financial) behaviour. This article argues that the preemptive temporality seen in such court cases is a practice of ‘sorting time’ and producing distinct legal definitions around future violence. Building on postcolonia…
From contestation to conviction
This article asks how terrorism expertise has been mobilized in recent trials on terrorism financing. How is expert knowledge concerning ongoing and complex political situations involving alleged terrorism translated into factual evidence before a court of law? What kind of sources do courts use in terrorism cases, and what kind of expert knowledge is acknowledged or ignored? Through analysis of concrete cases under the United Kingdom (UK) Terror…
Colonial Aftermaths
This review discusses two novel contributions to a post-colonial understanding of geopolitics in the Middle-East: “Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony” by Sara Salem and “Embodying geopolitics: Generations of women’s activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon” by Nicola Pratt. Both books analyse the economy, rules, political institutions, societal dynamics and popular resistance through a post-colonial lens, showing the importa…
Guilty knowledge
This article studies practices of knowledge production during counterterrorism financing court cases in European courts. Developments in international law have contributed to novel regulations to criminalise and prosecute the funding of terrorism in advance of terrorist violence. In this study, we study how court cases have become important spaces for contesting and evaluating multiple knowledge claims on terrorist threat and suspicion by analysi…
The Courtroom as Four Landscapes
In the past decade, Western European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France have seen a sharp increase in terrorism trials. Studying these trials can provide unique insights into which terrorist offences come before the court and what legal challenges arise from this relatively novel practice. To unpack the complexity of terrorism trials, we adopt an empirical approach to terrorism trials. Based on 3 years of extensive ethn…
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria
This article examines the political and legal controversies around a counterterrorism programme conducted by the Dutch government to support the so-called moderate groups in Syria between 2015 and 2018. The controversies centred around the question how the Dutch government was able to define and support armed moderate groups in Syria and distinguish them from terrorist organizations. The objective of the article is to take up this question and un…
The Techno-Legal Co-Production of Terrorist Suspects
From domestic lists to kill-lists deployed in counter-terrorism operations, lists have been a central tool in tracing, targeting and identifying terrorist suspects. Such lists increasingly make use of algorithms and surveillance technologies, quickly filtering through vast amounts of data in a promise of providing more accurate and almost real-time updates on the terrorist threats. In this article, we empirically study how different lists in dome…
Spooky secrets
This article investigates the temporal and material relations of secrecy and revelation through the lens of haunting. Critical security scholars have contributed to a deeper understanding of (state) secrecy by unpacking the material and discursive practices that conceal, reveal, or expose information, showing that there is no linear process from secrecy to transparency and accountability. In this article, I contribute to this literature by develo…
A critical reflection on the prosecution of Lafarge for terrorism financing and involvement in crimes against humanity
This article unpacks the criminal charges against the French cement company Lafarge for their complicity in crimes against humanity and terrorism financing during the war in Syria. We take these unique criminal proceedings as an opportunity to examine the relationship between corporate involvement in international crimes, terrorism financing, law and accountability. Through a qualitative analysis of media publications and court records, we recons…
The Politics of Repair in a Broken World
Much of the world is currently bearing witness to major transformations to the liberal-modern geopolitical order that has defined it for some time. Amid this crisis, an array of new political orientations have been adopted by the different actors now competing for the authority to establish the agendas that will shape our future. One such orientation is repair. Repair refers to a mode of political critique that reads our present malaise as the re…
Speculative citizenship
We develop the concept of speculative citizenship – the process of limiting citizenship rights based on speculation about future security risk – showing how counterterrorism measures make citizenship rights malleable in particular gendered and racialized ways. Moving beyond debates on citizenship deprivation or immigration, we focus on the curtailing of citizenship rights of full citizens accused of terrorist crimes. We analyse the legal proceedi…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Terrorism (9 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · International Law and Human Rights (4 works)