Afghanistan within the current Geopolitical Shifts in the Region

Friday, 28 November 2025

UNIBO, Forlì Campus

11:00-13:00 room 1.3, Pad. Morgagni-Gaddi

 Session I – The new Geography and Geopolitics of the Region

• Chair: Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna
• Lara Klossek (European External Action), Weighty borders: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan
• H.E. Ambassador Khaled A. Zekriya, The Imminent Return of the US to Bagram, Afghanistan: Expectations & Probable Scenarios within the Current Geopolitical Shifts in the Region

Lunch break

14:30-16:30 room 6, TH, viale Filippo Corridoni 20

Session II – Human Rights

• Chair: Silvia Bagni, University of Bologna

• Huma Saeed, Senior Researcher, KU Leuven, Gender Justice and the Struggle of Afghan Women

• Sohyla Arjmand, attivista per i diritti umani, esule iraniana, La lotta per i diritti di “Donne, Vita, Libertà”

• Lutforahman Saeed, Professor of Islamic Law at Brigham Young University (BYU) Law School in Provo, Utah, Freedom of Communal Prayer in the Primary Sources of Islamic Law and under the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

Saturday, 29 November 2025

Embassy and Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Rome, Italy

10:30-13:00

Session IV – International Law and Sharia Law: a possible dialogue?

• Chair: Massimo Papa, University of Roma Tor Vergata
• Honorable Senator Cinzia Pellegrino, Member of the Italian Senate, Italy’s Stance on the rights of women in Afghanistan

• Florence Rosati, Senior Advisor for food Security, Policy and Research, Resilience Under Constraint: Food Security, Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Afghanistan

• Paolo Bargiacchi, University Enna Kore, The US Sanctions against ICC and its probable effect on ICC issued arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for persecuting women and girls

13.30-14.00

Conclusions by Ambassador Khaled A. Zekriya

14.00-15.30

Afghan Lunch Buffet served at the Embassy and Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan