Of backways and legitimate concerns
Review of Backway to Europe: Talking Borders and Migration with Gambians on the Move (Series 1)
Over 2,100 Hours of Silence: The Battle to Speak in the Name of Iran’s People
This fieldnote examines Iran’s internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technical failure but as a political form.
“There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
Humanitarianism Hijacked: Israel’s instrumentalization of the humanitarian space
In November 2023, during the first phase of the genocide in Gaza, I published a text in Allegra Lab, asking
Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation
Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire
Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge
State of Address
It demands a kind of compliance to a taxonomised structure. For us to follow a set of instructions to turn in the correct documents, forms, proofs and annexures.
Syria in the Moment
While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for
Forever no more? Between new and old worlds
The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Maya Wind. 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. London: Verso. In Towers of Ivory and