Inshah Malik is an Assistant Professor at Kardan University in Kabul, Afghanistan and Visiting Professor at University of Washington. She was awarded a PhD degree from the Center for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. A former Yale International Fellow, she has been actively engaged in public writing and internet-activism on issues of militarism, human rights, women's rights and larger political self-determination rights of various people in South Asia with a particular focus on Kashmir. Her first monograph, "Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The case of Kashmir" was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.