Volume 17, No. 2 – 2017

Articles

• E-Love by MOSARRAP H KHAN Posted in: Literature & Literary Studies, Culture, Articles Hi, what’s up? Wanna chat in private? What do I do? Nothing really. Haha. Can you see me? But I can’t see you. I wanna see you. Not so soon? When? Do you do it? No? You don’t know what?… Continue Reading
• The text of the Lecture that Parveena Ahangar of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (Apdp) Delivered at the 2017 Rafto Conference at Bergen, Norway. by PARVEENA AHANGER Posted in: Life writing, Articles   To, the Rafto Foundation, Sisters & Brothers, Friends, and the International Human Rights Community, Assalamu Alaikkum, My heartfelt thanks to the Rafto Foundation for co-awarding me the 2017 Rafto Human Rights Prize with ParvezImroz, the co-founder of The Association… Continue Reading

Poetry

• Rejected Poem by AJMAL KHAN A.T Posted in: Poetry 1 The poem was accused asanti national and rejected like a US visa applicant from Muslim country It wanted to prove as nationalist It started with Vandematharam the continuing lines were only nouns of the independence struggles in which the… Continue Reading
• Five poems on Survival by INSHAH MALIK Posted in: Poetry MY MURDERER AND I The murderer loses no morality Never risk a thought Pitched on the terrain of war Thoughts are ammunition We can discuss if the murder happened But never doubt the morality of my murderer He gently caressed… Continue Reading
• The itch Fades by KHADIJA AHMED Posted in: Poetry Mosquito bites scab over and the itch fades. Oud notes fade through the patio door into the night and smoke escapes from your lips to mine. I inhale. I look over the railing into the night at the lights below.… Continue Reading
• India by NAZREEN FAZAL Posted in: Poetry Listen, India is not a woman let alone a benevolent mother draped in the tricolour, head crowned, Palm stretched to bless those who shun her femininity in all other forms. India is dark and dusty, It exists, at once, In… Continue Reading

Life Writing

• ‘Fathima Naufira will, for sure’ by ASLAH K Posted in: Life Writing Greeting one another on the auspicious day of Eid after namaz, I was startled by a soft tap from behind. Turning, I was struck by an inexplicable joy. There, she stood. The same happy face I had met on April… Continue Reading
• Just a Piece of Cloth by AZNA PARVEEN Posted in: Life Writing This is something about which I have always wanted to write. Something that contributes so much to my identity and me as a person, yet, from the cover, it's just a scarf. Just a piece of cloth. I don't remember… Continue Reading
• The Nakba: Narrating the “Non-Existing” Palestinians into History! by HATEM BAZIAN Posted in: Life Writing I have been engaged in a constant writing project that intends to highlight Palestinian narratives since 1948 up to the present. The dispossession narrative touches every Palestinian family including my own. During the 1948 Nakba and the war period, two… Continue Reading
• Justice for Najeeb: Between Identity and Insaaf by HEBA AHMED Posted in: Life Writing “Rahiye ab aisi jagah chal kar jahan koi na ho ham-sukhan koi na ho aur ham-zaban koi na ho” --Mirza Ghalib (Go and stay in a quarter where no one lives None to hear your speech, none to speak in… Continue Reading
• Why ‘Anti-Sharia’ Protestors in Los Angeles are Concerned about Muslim Women by KHANUM SHAIKH Posted in: Life Writing On a sunny Los Angeles afternoon in June of 2017 I was driving to the airport to pick up mycousin who was coming to visit me from Canada for the very first time. As I approached the international terminal I… Continue Reading
• The Seducing Spaces; a Journey through the Streets of old Delhi by MUHAMMED MASHKOOR Posted in: Life Writing My first journey to Delhi ended with a drizzling rain at Nizamuddin railway station on the first of July 2016. I was in the city to attend CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) two month long course on… Continue Reading
• On Being a Brown Muslim Woman by RIDA ABDULLAH Posted in: Life Writing This is the story of the time when I still used to wear the Hijab. I was 14. It was 2008. The year of the global recession, not that I knew what that it meant back then. I was flying… Continue Reading
• Rohithvemula, Muslim Question and the Limit of Democracy by MUHAMMED SHAH S Posted in: Life Writing This is an attempt to articulate the political/personal struggle that I had endured as a Muslim student during the period of students’ agitation following the sacrificial death of RohithVemula. The whole episode being stitched with my political experience as a… Continue Reading