The following is a list of publications by Ali Karimi.

Peer-reviewed Articles:

“Shirin’s Petition: An Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, with Masuma Nazari, vol. 68, no 3–4 (2025), pp. 339–397.

“Influencing: Ephemeral Publics in States of Emergency.” American Historical Review, vol. 129, no 2 (2024), pp. 601-608.

“Information Control in Afghanistan, 1901-1946.” Afghanistan, vol. 5, no 2 (2022), pp. 172–200.

“The Bazaar, the State, and the Struggle for Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 30, no. 4 (2020), pp. 613–633.

“Surveillance in Weak States: The Problem of Population Information in Afghanistan.” International Journal of Communication, vol. 13 (2019), pp. 4778–4794.
“Medium of the Oppressed: Folk Music, Forced Migration, and Tactical Media.” Communication, Culture & Critique, vol. 10, no. 4 (2017), pp. 729-745.

“Street Fights: The Commodification of Place Names in Post-Taliban Kabul City.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 106, no. 3 (2016), pp. 738-753.

Articles in Media (selected):

"On Official Recognition of Afghan Governments" [Persian]. Etelaat Ruz (2024). 

“Documenting the Disaster: Recording Personal Observations During the COVID-19 Pandemic” [Persian]. Etelaat Ruz (2020).

“Migratory Experiences of the Hazaras in the Italian Film Sembra mio figlio” [Persian]. BBC Persian (2020). 

“Can Cities Save Afghanistan?” Foreign Policy (2015).

“Afghanistan's Demographic Drought.” Foreign Policy (2014). 

“On Christians of Kabul.” [Persian] Hasht-e Subh (2014). 

“Das traditionelle Handwerk Afghanistans” [Traditional Craftsmanship in Afghanistan.] Federal Agency for Civic Education (2012). 

“A History of Photography in Afghanistan.” [Persian] BBC Persian (2012). 

“Documenting Kabul City: on Atelier Varan's Documentaries.”[Persian] Deutsche Welle Dari (2012).