Iqbal's Dream
The mosque in Cordoba stands symmetrical, linear — like the progression of History in the Imam's khutba on Friday. The dreamlike Spain glorious still home to the righteous…
Zohran Mamdani’s election isn’t just a win for the left, it’s a generational revolt against rhetorical politics, moral evasiveness, and the exhaustion of governance by performance.
History rarely announces its…
The mountains, as a symbol of guerrilla resistance against the riyasat of Pakistan, have played a crucial part in the politics and life of Balochistan. “To take to the mountains” is a…
"I am cold and I think / I will never feel warm again."
— Forugh Farrokhzad's poem Another Birth (Tavalodi Digar, 1964).
Premiered in Competition this Fall at the 30th…
Most geniuses have one masterwork for which they are famous. For Che and Fidel, that work was surely the Cuban Revolution and its international humanism, just as it was for…
“Peace is the coded continuation of war by other means.”
—Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976, trans. David Macey (New…
(inspired by Leila Al Shami)
Once again, we see a familiar pattern: a section of the self-declared anti-imperialist camp in Pakistan rushes to defend the Pakistani state and its imperial…
The Toll Plaza
The bus was crawling toward the Islamabad toll plaza when the silence cracked. Masked men, rifles slung across their chests, stormed inside. They switched off the cameras,…
“The Versailles settlement did not so much end the war as prolong it by other means.”
— Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt…
Nuremberg restages justice as heritage cinema—grand sets, solemn tones, clever repartee—yet in doing so, it reveals the deepest irony of accountability: law as theatre for a heritage conscience, hollow where…
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