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Beyond Butshikan: Reassessing Sikandar Shahmiri’s “Iconoclast” Legacy — An Academic Essay by Khawar Khan Achakzai

In this ambitious academic essay, Khawar Khan Achakzai problematizes the historical figure of Sikandar Shahmiri—notoriously known as Sikandar Butshikan, “the idol breaker”—by engaging with a variety of historical texts, and previously unaccessed documentary and archaeological evidence. The essay cit

The Weaponisation of the Language of Oppression: Review of R.F. Kuang, Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution — by Marie-Luise Kohlke

R. F. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution London: HarperVoyager 2022 ISBN: 970-0-00-850181-5, £16.99 (HB) Originally published in Neo-Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022): General Issue 2021/2022 [https://neovictorianstudies.com/art

Exile Things — What We Brought with Us: Things of Exile and Migration (Transcript, 2024)

In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and rejuvenation. Through a series of scholarly essays and autobiographical vignettes, this richly illustrated volume draws on such observations to examine th

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

Patriarchy and Partition: Representation of Women in Anirudh Kala’s The Unsafe Asylum — A Commentary by Marusa Mushtaq

In this commentary, Marusa Mushtaq focuses on the lived experiences of women “in the turbulent aftermath of the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition through the lens of Indian psychiatrist Anirudh Kala’s short story collection The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness(Speaking Tiger, 2018) [https

Rehman Rahi and Existential Poetry in the Kashmiri Tradition — A Commentary by Faheem Ahmad

Faheem Ahmad presents an academic commentary excavating important elements of existentialist philosophy found in Rehman Rahi’s poetic oeuvre, with special attention given to two of the late poet’s greatest collections, Siyah Roode Jaren Manz [https://archive.org/details/siyaah-roodh-jaren-manz-by-ra

Towards a Phenomenology of Praxis: The Entropy of Existence in the Films of Terrence Malick — by Kamran Bashir

In this academic paper that is also a commentary on film, Kamran Bashir walks us through three of Terrence Malick’s most notable works. Bashir discussing the significance of works such as “Tree of Life”, “Knight of Cups”, and “A Hidden Life”, while providing greater context into the vast importance