Pakistan باكستان

On 3 May 2020, cricketer-turned-politician and the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan addressed a public gathering where he spoke about the importance of watching Turkish shows instead of ‘typical Bollywood’. This speech came a year after Pakistan had banned the import or broadcast of I..

This project was inspired by my grandmother. In 1971, she, along with my mother who was twelve years old at the time, had to flee East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) due to civil war. A widow and already ultra-poor, she was working at a restaurant to take care of he..

This book emerges from my commitment to study how sovereignty and gender frame the life of a nation. While in the book I take Pakistan as a case in point, the intersection of masculinity and militarism, and the instrumentalization of Islam to regulate people, a..

There is a reflex in the Western world that has led to a singular narrative on what radicalism means and why it happens; it is clear now, two decades into the War on Terror, that it is utterly wrong. The West does not understand radicalism—either by design or d..

When I traveled to Pakistan for the first time in the summer of 2011, I was stunned by what I saw in Islamabad. The center of Pakistan’s capital was covered with posters depicting Sayyid ‘Arif Husayn al-Husayni, the most important Shi‘i leader of the 1980s and ..

Insurgent Aesthetics is about the interface between contemporary Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic visual art and aesthetics and US global warfare in the Greater Middle East.

I was born and raised in Turkey. My father was a politician and an intellectual; with his influence, I started to grapple at an early age with questions about the gap in development between the Muslim world and the West.

We were both participants (in different years) in an international seminar on decolonization that ran at the Library of Congress for ten years under (among others) William Roger Louis and Dane Kennedy. It is not too much to say that this seminar trained a gener..

The past few days have seen an “escalation” in cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan. Since the 14 February attack (more below), we have seen three types of responses emerge. The first is a war that is mainly being played out on social media platforms and nationalist television throug..

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