Zine

Reclaiming Pakistaniat

Mar 2016

We need a critical Pakistan studies that challenges reductive analyses informed by global security frameworks, and the state’s uses and abuses of knowledge. Issue 10
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Issue 9: Enduring Imperialisms | Intro

Aug 2015
Issue 9: Enduring Imperialisms | Intro

اردو | Issue 9 is here! This issue investigates the flexible, mutating quality of imperial power.
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English/Urdu Bipolarity Syndrome in Pakistan

Feb 2015

Pakistan's media conglomerates know what sells in what language.
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A Critique of Language Snobs: Urdu and the Politics of Identity

A history of the extraordinary–and ludicrous–political battles for an authentic Urdu.
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Issue 7: Beyond Tremors & Terror

Sep 2014

اردو | Contemporary writings on Pakistan peddle views of a country wrecked by tremors and terror. We push back, and feature a fresh young crop of thinkers on Pakistan who don't buy into stereotypes.
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The Cockroach & Other Stories | An interview with artist: Tazeen Qayyum

Sep 2014

Featured artist Tazeen Qayyum speaks about the use of cockroaches, and other metaphors, in her work.
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Issue 6: Mobs and Movements

Mar 2014

اردو | In this issue, we explore the tensions between the fragment and the whole: the mobs, the movements and the great teeming multitude.
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