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Dissent, Cultural Criticism

Mohammed el-Kurd’s ‘Perfect Victims’ Asks Why Palestinians Must Perform Their Humanity to Be Seen

The Polis Project
Majoritarianism and Mass Violence, Reviews

This Land We Call Home: A Formidable Counter to the Hindutva Narrative of Forced Conversion

Sohel Sarkar
Dissent, Essay

Representations of the Dissident: Reading Sharjeel Imam in Pakistan

Asmer Asrar Safi
Mind – Memory & Trauma, Reviews

Wounds of Pyre: Bringing the Dom Community’s Mental Well-Being Into Focus

Aisiri Amin
Dissent, Cultural Criticism

The Neighbors and The Age of Orphans: Reading Iranian Novels at the Edge of War

The Polis Project
  • Letters from Palestine
  • The Demolitions Project
  • BK-16 Prison Diaries
Letters from Palestine, Personal Histories
Letter from Palestine: Between Ruins and Hope, an Undying Dream of Returning Home 
Asma Abu Hasanein
Israel releases Palestinian hostages
State Violence and Carcerality, Letters from Palestine
‘I’ve Returned from Hell’: Arrested Without Charge, Palestinian Journalists, Doctor Detail Torture in Israeli Prisons
Doaa Shaheen
Mind – Memory & Trauma, Letters from Palestine
Letters from Palestine: One by one, we may all fade away, but the martyrs will remain—still, silent, beloved of God
Sawsan Al-Ajjouri

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Dissent, Essay

Representations of the Dissident: Reading Sharjeel Imam in Pakistan

Asmer Asrar Safi

NARRATIVE CONTROL

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Gulf

Gulf: A Dangerous, Orientalist Portrait of Monstrous Arabs and Oppressed Victims

Zoe Jane Patterson

Gulf

Gulf: A Dangerous, Orientalist Portrait of Monstrous Arabs and Oppressed Victims

Zoe Jane Patterson
Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod Shows Why Those Who Claim to Save Muslim Women Don’t Care About Them

The Polis Project
Edward Said Covering Islam

Edward Said’s ‘Covering Islam’ Remains Disturbingly Relevant Today

The Polis Project
pooja sir censorship nepal

From Badhshala to Pooja, Sir: Inside the Battle Over Film Censorship in Nepal

Viren Naidu

What the Epstein Files Media Discourse Misses About How Power Operates

SuchitraV
Meta censors and suppresses Palestinian and pro-Palestine voices on its platform.

Algorithmic Politics: How Meta Silenced Palestinian Voices Amid Genocide

Jalal Abukhater, Eric Sype

Technologies of Genocide: Episode Four | The Uyghur Genocide: Surveillance, Global Capital, and Racialised Counterterrorism

 

Technologies of Genocide: Episode Three | What is happening in Congo will not stay in Congo

 

Technologies of Genocide: Episode Two | Bloodshed in Bangladesh

 

 

 

Technologies of Genocide: How Big Tech Profits from Mass Annihilation

 

Zoe Alexandra on the Abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and America’s Long Imperial War on Venezuela

State violence & carcerality

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Oppression and Dehumanization: Reading ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ Amid Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

The Polis Project

Who Will Buy India’s Weapons? Cracks Behind a Defense Boom

Rajshekhar

Know Thy Neighbor: Solidarity and Care in a Time of Immigration Crackdown in Minnesota

CirienSaadeh

कैसे एक साधारण मालवेयर हमला भारत का सबसे बड़ा राज्य-प्रायोजित साइबर अपराध बना

Prashant Rahi, Mouli Sharma

She Came to the US Fleeing Violence in Venezuela. Now She Faces Deportation.

Sam Judy
Zoe Alexandra on the Abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and America’s Long Imperial War on Venezuela

Zoe Alexandra on the Abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and America’s Long Imperial War on Venezuela

SuchitraV

DISSENT

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Perfect Victims

Mohammed el-Kurd’s ‘Perfect Victims’ Asks Why Palestinians Must Perform Their Humanity to Be Seen

The Polis Project
Political prisoner Sharjeel Imam

Representations of the Dissident: Reading Sharjeel Imam in Pakistan

Asmer Asrar Safi
The Age of Orphans and The Neighbors

The Neighbors and The Age of Orphans: Reading Iranian Novels at the Edge of War

The Polis Project

Photo Essay: Scenes of Solidarity, from Kashmir to Iran amid War

Ahsaan
Jacob Israel De Haan

The Queer Dissident Zionism Could Not Contain: Jacob Israël de Haan

Dhrishya
Renuka

Fireflies in the Warzone: The Life and Death of Gummadivelli Renuka 

Raaz

MAJORITARIANISM & MASS VIOLENCE

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This Land We Call Home

This Land We Call Home: A Formidable Counter to the Hindutva Narrative of Forced Conversion

Sohel Sarkar

Ramadan and Its Changing Meanings in the Shadows of Gaza’s Ruins 

Husam Maarouf

Killed Trying to Save Her Students: The Iranian Principal Who Died in the US School Strike

Peiman
Jaipur food caste

The Invisible Caste Lines of Jaipur’s Food Scene

Roopashi Semalty
Visuals from Tehran, Iran

Dispatch from Tehran: Bombs and Hardship are Reshaping Iranian Society

Peiman
Mayyu Ali Eradication

“The Rohingya Are Not Statistics”: Poet Mayyu Ali’s Resolve to Preserve His Culture

Amritesh Mukherjee

LAWFARE

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How Green Laws and Carbon Markets Being Used to Prosecute Indigenous Land Defenders in Global South

Ahmadu Abubakar Ndakogarba
Former President Chakwera, Malawi

Fall of Malawi’s Pastor-President: How Chakwera’s Five Years of Instability and Repression Ended in Defeat

Raphael Mweninguwe

She Came to the US Fleeing Violence in Venezuela. Now She Faces Deportation.

Sam Judy
Freedom of expression in Nigeria

Policing Speech: As Elections Inch Closer in Tinubu’s Nigeria, Digital Crackdown on the Rise

Adetokunbo
Ministry of Comedic Affairs

Indian Govt Launches Ministry of Comedic Affairs

The Savala Vada
The Oyerepa Afutu show hosted by Auntie Naa in Ghana

Sensationalism, Insensitivity, and Shock Value: Why Ghana’s Media Courts Cannot Replace Its Failing Justice System 

Menenaba

HYPERIMPERIALISM & TECHNOLOGY

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Koozhangal

Koozhangal: A Meditation on Masculinity, Endurance, and Caste

Naitri Derasari

How NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch Bolstered a System of Racialized Surveillance, Tech-integrated Policing

SuchitraV
Morocco tourism gaza genocide

Rebranding Occupation From Morocco to Gaza: Tourism, Power, and the Business of Forgetting 

Farida F. Alvarez
Meta censors and suppresses Palestinian and pro-Palestine voices on its platform.

Algorithmic Politics: How Meta Silenced Palestinian Voices Amid Genocide

Jalal Abukhater, Eric Sype

How AI Like Grok and Social Media Platforms Silence Queer Nigerian Voices

Obinna Tony Francis Ochem
Kathputli puppet

Kathputli’s Lost Artisans: Displacement and the Making of a Digital Music Scene

Anuj Behal

CLIMATE & ECOCIDE

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Israel’s ‘Ecocide’ in Lebanon as a Tool of War and Displacement

Mehk

How Green Laws and Carbon Markets Being Used to Prosecute Indigenous Land Defenders in Global South

Ahmadu Abubakar Ndakogarba
Debris from Dharali flood.

Disaster as Policy: Dharali Flash Floods Reveal the Making of a Himalayan Catastrophe

Prashant Rahi

एक नई अर्थव्यवस्था: कर्ज और निर्भरता के दुश्चक्र में फंसे हुए उत्तराखंड के वन गुज्जर

Sharjeel Usmani
Forest fire in Uttarakhand, India

परस्पर नुकसान: उत्तराखंड में वन गुज्जरों के बिना वनों पर और वनों के बिना वन गुज्जरों पर होने वाले गंभीर परिणाम

Sharjeel Usmani

जंगल राज: भारतीय सेना पर, शिवालिक जंगलों में फ़ायरिंग रेंज के गैर कानूनी इस्तेमाल के दौरान वन गुज्जरों की हत्या का आरोप

Sharjeel Usmani

Mind – Memory & Trauma

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Wounds of Pyre

Wounds of Pyre: Bringing the Dom Community’s Mental Well-Being Into Focus

Aisiri Amin

Ramadan and Its Changing Meanings in the Shadows of Gaza’s Ruins 

Husam Maarouf
Psychic Anesthesia

Psychic Anesthesia: How the State’s Scapegoating of Muslims Makes Hatred Feel Inevitable, Numbing National Grief 

Shaifila Ladhani
Wajid Yaseen's Tape Letters Project

Tape Letters: Wajid Yaseen’s “Sound Archaeology” Project Captures Pakistani Diasporic Memory

Priyanka Sacheti
Anuparna Roy Songs of Forgotten Trees

Anuparna Roy on Love, Labor, and Resistance in ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’

Kaashif
Gaza women children

Displaced Women in Gaza: A Life Without Safety, Healthcare, Dignity

Doaa

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