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How do you map an occupied city? What does it mean to walk a city where the walls whisper to you names— of boys who have been pushed against it, of men whose blood still wets its bricks? Where does the cemetery end, & the city begin?
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Call for submissions📣 | This call invites creative non-fiction, analytical essays, narrative writing and visual works that look at the variegated notions of ‘disappearance(s)’.
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“One of the most dangerous thinkers of the twentieth century”
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Few Arab intellectuals have woven Marxism, Sufism, and Taoism into a single worldview as boldly as Hadi al-‘Alawi, an Iraqi Marxist scholar who spent his life rethinking Arab heritage (turath) through anti-authoritarian spirituality and social justice.
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New call for submissions is out! 📣 | This call invites creative non-fiction, analytical essays, narrative writing, and visual work that examine disappearance beyond physical absence.
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In #Egypt, women’s labour is the backbone of #agriculture, and yet it remains invisibilised. That invisibility has a price. The women are left with no written contracts, no legal protections or social insurance, and little leverage to demand fair pay.
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Long Read | In Sudan 🇸🇩, farmers face the destruction of agricultural infrastructure, lack of funding and agricultural inputs, the deterioration and mismanagement of irrigation systems, and the rising costs of land preparation. thecontrapuntal.com/war-agai…
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Through Pax Silica, the United States and its partners are expanding their control over semiconductors and rare minerals, reshaping global power through strategic resources, supply chains, and chokepoints. writes Michelle Villariez
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The common thread between three Hindutva canons – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s ‘Anandmath’, SD Savarkar’s ‘Essentials of Hindutva’, and MS Golwalkar’s ‘We; or, Our Nationhood Defined’ – is the identification of the Muslim ‘Other’. @talalasadist
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Why is a movement looking to free the youth irked by the invocation of freedom? Are there cracks in the road to freedom that connects Kashmiri youth to indian youth? Why else does the meaning of a pelletgun wound change w/ geography?
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Opinion on India's recent student protests | "The absurd call for unity to be formed under apolitical conditions is intentional, unsustainable, and a breeding ground for rabid majoritarianism."
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