Edward Lemon

Edward Lemon is the DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow, Daniel Morgan Graduate School in Washington DC. His research examines security, Islam, migration and politics in Tajikistan and Eurasia. Follow him on Twitter at @edwardlemon3.

Central Asia brings foreign fighters’ families home, but what next?

How do you take back families coming from IS territory? Thousands of men and their families traveled from Central Asia to IS territory to fight, and the authorities are now having to deal with them.

By Edward Lemon

/ 26 Jun 2019

Central Asia brings foreign fighters’ families home, but what next?

Transforming Tajikistan: how the Rahmon regime turned religion into a site of struggle

This new book focuses on Tajik society’s turn to Islam as a means of coping with disorder.

By Edward Lemon

/ 4 Sep 2018

How can we explain radicalisation among Central Asia’s migrants?

Central Asia isn’t to blame for “exporting terrorism”, but the stigmatising experience of migration could be. Русский, Ўзбекча

By John Heathershaw and Edward Lemon

/ 2 May 2017

The long arm of the despot

Tajikistan’s government doesn’t hesitate to go after its critics abroad. Intimidation, beatings and murder — this is Central Asia’s authoritarianism without borders.

By Edward Lemon

/ 24 Feb 2016