Aminah W. Chaudhry Wherever there is brutality, there is resistance and wherever there is resistance there is art. Art has always been a strong expression by human beings, and I believe the world has always seen great events covered by art itself, whether it is in the form of songs of resistance, theater, poetry, or…
Wafa Asher The moment we are inhabiting is unprecedented in ways that I find difficult to articulate entirely. There is chaos and upheaval, death and uncertainty, sparks followed by fires of hope, and a slow rumbling of ‘this-ain’t-it’ building into a crescendo every single day. Following the Black Lives Matter movement in America*, there have…
Myra Farooq Racism existed in societies long before modern societies were developed and territories were defined. It started when people lived in clans and tribes. Foreigners (strangers) coming from tribes or lands, speaking different languages with different cultural norms and religious beliefs were seen as a threat to one’s clan. That is when it all…
Malaika Chishty Safoora Zargar is a 26-year-old Indian-Muslim student activist from Jammu and Kashmir, widely known for her activism in the Citizenship Amendment Act protests. She is an M.Phil student of Jamia Millia Islamia and media coordinator of the Jamia Coordination Committee. Zargar has shaken the socio-political infrastructure of India, which is designed to crush…
