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Mubashir Karim

Apor Lal Chowk — A Poem by Mubashir Karim

Passing through this Kashmiri “Age of Big Construction”, Mubashir Karim’s poem takes us back to the shared experience of those who know what it is to ride on a bus or a matador. Seated in the present, these verses－and the poetic voice that shapes them－adopt the gaze of a passenger-flâneur who moves

To Be or Not to Be: Between Palestine and Israel — Introduced and Compiled by Muzaffar Karim and Mubashir Karim

At a time when intellectual complicity determines the validity of certain intellectualism and the way we approach intellectual figures, Muzaffar Karim and Mubashir Karim present a list of 50 leading intellectuals, writers, thinkers, philosophers, etc. vis-a-vis their positions on Palestine and Israe

The Solemnity of Childishness: On Alejandro Zambra’s "Childish Literature" — by Mubashir Karim

All the way from Kashmir, academic and writer Mubashir Karim presents a detailed review of Alejandro Zambra's most recent book, Childish Literature (Penguin, 2024, trans. Megan McDowell). The review transcends into meditations on Zambra's writing and a re-acquaintance with the core themes that emerg

Tending a Bonsai or How to Read a Translated Text without Knowing the Original — by Mubashir Karim

In this commentary on two translations of Alejandro Zambra’s novel “Bonsai”, Mubashir Karim performs an exercise in “literary appreciation” that functions equally well as a concise comparative study of the two translations—one by Megan McDowell and the other by Carolina de Robertis. As the commentar

Being There — A Poem by Mubashir Karim

As the first month of this year comes to a close, we publish a poem by Mubashir Karim about the year that went by. Such verses are rooted in hope that is grounded and poised.

The Animal Touch — by Mubashir Karim

While evaluating the writings of various philosophers and theorists like Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway, Mubashir Karim presents an extensive paper that considers the central role that animals play in celebrated works of literature and film. From Chekhov’s “Misery,” Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi’s “The C

The (Mis)Adventures of Some Nosey Fellas — by Mubashir Karim

Mubashir Karim presents a multidisciplinary commentary that reflects on the subtle and more prominent placement of noses in a wide variety of literary and cinematographic works, paying close attention to the function, (re)presentation and symbolic importance of this organ.