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Cheegha: The Call from Waziristan | Book Review

Mar 2017

Daur’s book is raw: one feels his pain at the state of Waziristan through its pages. It is particularly strong since Daur writes from within Waziristan: we, not they.
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Working Class Power & Feminism: An Interview with Alia Amirali | VOICES

Sep 2016

Punjab Deputy General Secretary of Awami Workers Party, Alia Amirali, and Toronto-based labor union organizer Sara Jaffri discuss organizing, imperialism, feminism and class in Pakistan.
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the way damaged people love | TQ Salon

Aug 2016

to be with someone we love is a heroic act of defiance, a grave dissidence to every single normativity of state, religion and society which tells everything about us is somehow wrong. all of a sudden you become a Luti (people of Lut), a mental condition, a pervert, or might be going through a...
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Queer Shuttling | TQ Salon

Jul 2016

I shuttle not only because I am always anxious of others appropriating my narrative, but also because I don’t really know how to process and narrate my queerness, how to come out politically through a narrative that is mine, that refuses to be globalized. Part of the reason for our collective shuttling is our...
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Are we like you? Paris and co-victimhood | Butcher’s Block

Dec 2015

A violence links Euro-America and the Muslim world, Paris and Peshawar. But it not the violence of ‘terrorism'. It is the savagery of the liberal imperial project.
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Successful Forms of Incremental In-situ Upgradation | Invisible Cities

Dec 2015
Successful Forms of Incremental In-situ Upgradation | Invisible Cities

As India’s economy experiences rapid growth in the service, finance and other tertiary sector industries, urban centers are becoming hubs of economic opportunity. This is driving labor migration from rural areas and smaller towns to big cities.
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#independenceday: “Pakistan is not yet independent”

#independenceday: "Pakistan is not yet independent" This independence day, Annie Ali Khan speaks to poet Hasan Mujtaba on the meaning of freedom, and his poem, Bol Ke Tayray Lab Azaad Nahin Hain.
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