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The Witness and the Wound: Seeing with Sebastião Salgado

“I photograph to testify, not to preserve.” - Sebastião Salgado, quoted in Lélia Wanick Salgado (ed.), Genesis (Cologne: Taschen, 2013), 14. It was Fall 2005, and I had made…

The Lawyer vs the Oligarchy: An Interview with Ehsan Ali Advocate

Below we present a composite write up of three interviews with Ehsan Ali by Qalandar Bux Memon, Haider Ali, and Sonia Qadir. The interviews took place between 2015 and 2022. Comrade…

Art History’s Unfinished Argument with Itself

"Which art history should I teach in Khartoum?” —Salah M. Hassan, an art historian, critic, and curator, Cornell University. Art history occupies a unique position in the longue durée of…

ESHAN ALI AND THE GILGIT-BALTISTAN WHEAT MOVEMENT

‘Gandum Subsidy Tehreek’ (Wheat Subsidy Movement) stands as thelargest protest in the history of Gilgit Baltistan region. At its height, it spanned every area and involved hundreds of thousands of…

We Will Not Forget: Feroz’s Life Matters.

The last three years have been a long wait, and it's not over yet, with countless nights and nightmares. Balochistan has been entrenched in conflict for a long time, where…

Histories of the Ephemeral: The Qawwali Legacy of Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad

“ To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist, One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to…

From Library to Dungeon : Feroz’s Story and His Parents’ Grief

When we chant the slogan "Taleem do, zindan nahi" (Give education, not prison) on the streets in Pakistan. we truly mean it — because as Baloch students, our lives…

Sacred, Seen, and Shifting: The New Language of Islamic Art

“What can ‘art’ mean in a culture where the primary organ of perception is not the eye or the ears, but the heart? It requires a shift from the visible…

Is Pluralism the New Orthodoxy in Global Art?

“What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies…

Stolen Fathers, Stolen Childhoods: Ten Years of Waiting for Zaheer Baloch

A Name Among Thousands, A Family Among the Broken On April 13, 2015, Zaheer Baloch, a resident of Panjgur district, was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces from Hub Chowki,…