The Poverty of Piety: A Response to Sonia Qadir
In support of Afiya Zia’s secular feminism.
1968 and Ever Since: An Interview with Tariq Ali (Part 2)
In Part II of our interview, Tariq Ali examines the afterlives of 1968 today: global youth insurgencies, anti-imperialist movements, and the tasks of the hour for the Left.
1968 and Ever Since: An Interview with Tariq Ali (Part 1)
In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Tariq Ali reflects on his memories of the 1968 movement in Pakistan, arguably the only unequivocal success of the wave of protests that shook the world.
India’s Dispossessed
A review of Michael Levien’s Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India.
Re-Orientalizing Feminism
A review of Afiya Zia’s book, Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy?
Khoon Diy Baarav — Blood Leaves its Trail
Independent filmmaker Iffat Fatima takes Jamhoor through her experience of making her recent documentary on the narratives of families impacted by state violence and enforced disappearances in Kashmir.
Yes, I am a Poem
Acclaimed poet, playwright, satirist, and public intellectual Salman Haider presents his most incisive works on the casualties of war, nationalism, and other forms of state violence.
Fighting Fascist Democracy: The Young Radicals of Bangladesh
Jamhoor interviewed the President of the Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement (RSYM), Atif Anik, about his thoughts on the recent transport strike, RSYM’s work, and the character of fascism in South Asia today.
Snapping an Uprising: Bangladeshi Youth Take to the Streets
Saptarshi Nath captures students taking to the streets for road safety in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Good Sufi, Bad Salafi: Is Pakistan’s Romance with Sufism Backfiring?
With a politicized Barelvism leading the recent protests against Aasia Bibi’s acquittal, has the Pakistani state’s romance with Barelvism, the supposedly soft and Sufi Islam, backfired?
The Nation-State is Not Our Friend: On Celebrating the Repeal of Section 377
Uncritically celebrating the repeal of Section 377 (India’s anti-sodomy law) as a milestone of decolonization obscures the complicity and exclusion inherent to the nation-state.
On Whose Side is the Government? The St. James Town Fire and the Housing Crisis
St. James Town is a largely South Asian and working-class neighbourhood in Toronto. What does the recent fire in two of its high-rises tell us about the city’s housing crisis?