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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 my way to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to see Sebastião Salgado: Territories and Lives. More than an exhibition, it was a map…
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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 intellectual thought. It is a narrative of images and a history of ideas inscribed in pigment and stone, language, philosophy, and shifting regimes of visibility.…
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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 people — men, women, children, Shia, Sunni, Ismaili, Noorbakshi, Balti, Burusho, Wakhi, Yasini, Puniali, Astori, Shin, Pathan, Kashgari, Gujjar, Chilasi and Dareli. In Skardu city…
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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 students have been the primary victims of state violence. Throughout the last two decades, starting from the 2000s, students have been the vanguard for a…
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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 colonization—and therefore force—is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased.” —Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan        Pinkham,…