Jobseekers in Dubai in the time of Covid-19 (I)
Arrivals to uncertainty In mid-December 2020, my friend T. returned to Dubai from Egypt in the hope of getting his […]
Smith on Heroin. A Short Film by Smith & Willing
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Happy Holidays!
This year, 2020. … the less we speak of it, the better, right? Still, it needs to be said that:
Jihad, universalism, and the Left: A conversation with Darryl Li
Since its publication in 2019, Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press)
Escape, Exposure, and Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
An act of walking into the wilderness implies an act of walking out of somewhere or something. The Pacific Crest
On unsolicited nostalgia and Tinder frustrations
‘I’ve been here before’ – the feeling of the present being firmly rooted in the past can be intense and
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A Possible Anthropology with Anand Pandian
Anand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Me
In the depths of the Depression, two girls were born to Jewish parents in New York City. One, in 1933,
“Imperialist Goats” & Tanzania’s Oct. 28 Elections
If you look at one of those world maps that show where Covid-19 cases are currently spiking, you will notice
The Montanelli Case: Sexuality, Race, and Colonial Forgetting in BLM Italy.
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s