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ART POLITICS
Aki Nawaz and the Politics of Sonic Citizenship
A short film opens a long-buried chapter of postwar Britain, where music became argument, Nation Records became counter-infrastructure, and Aki Nawaz refused to let multiculturalism settle into décor. Britain has begun to look and sound like its own archive. The recent 'United the Kingdom' march, fronted by Tommy Robinson and swelling beyond 110,000, was…
Poetry
Two Poems by Shahalam Tariq
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 pours out of his dream and the ink flows onto the page placed on the desk (….) The unleveled still broken road gaping at every…
POLITICS
The Mamdani Moment : Politics After the Age of Performance
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 turning points. It can arrive as spectacle or as slow erosion, as collapse or quiet reordering. The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New…
Fiction
A Quiet Epic of Absence
"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 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Isabelle Kalandar's debut feature Another Birth marked the arrival of a filmmaker whose vision is at once intimate and elemental.…
POLITICS
The Genius of Bacha Khan
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 Lenin, the Russian.  For CLR James, we can list "The Black Jacobins” as an extraordinary work of genius, as well as the underground Marxist group…
POLITICS
The ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Idiots: Pakistani Left Edition
(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 backers in the name of resisting “US hegemony” or “Western imperialism.” But strip away the slogans and the socialist jargon, and what’s left is a…
POLITICS
Versailles in Gaza
“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 to End War (London: John Murray, 2001), p. 493. On September 29 2025, Donald Trump stood beside Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, a map…