Behind Occupy Taksim Square Capital and conflict in TurkeyRAZA NAEEMThe Taksim Square occupation movement in Turkey makes explicit the structural contradiction between the ruling elites with their neoliberal leanings a
Saadat Hasan Manto Manto’s PakistanRaza NaeemWriting in the 1940s and early 1950s, even before Pakistan’s first military coup, Manto was surprisingly prescient about the dangers confronting con
Marx in MantoRAZA NAEEMSome of Mantos essays bring out his admiration for and sympathy with the ideas of Karl Marx and the Bolshevik revolution.
The underdog and the odd one outRAZA NAEEMRemembering Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the greatest Urdu writers of the 20th century, on his birth centenary.
Rebirth of hopeRAZA NAEEMThe period in Arab history which inaugurated the uprisings of the 1950s has now come full circle with the Arab Spring.
Shades of the pastRAZA NAEEMThe way Washington and Riyadh are backing the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, the killings in Yemen are certain to go on.
Ashes and rosesRAZA NAEEMThe Egyptian revolution of 1952 has a historical relevance in the post-Mubarak era.
Power and classRAZA NAEEMAn excellent anthropological study of the southern part of Yemen; the book can help one understand the roots of the current conflict there.
Power and classRAZA NAEEMAn excellent anthropological study of the southern part of Yemen; the book can help one understand the roots of the current conflict there.
Annals of resistanceRAZA NAEEMExtraordinary stories of how people banished from history in Teheran and Nador have wielded control over their destinies.
Imperial folliesRAZA NAEEMIn its current perceptions of the Third World, Washington continues to rely on notions of national security and cultural imperialism.
Defying stereotypesRAZA NAEEMYEMEN and Lebanon are parts of the Arab world that are usually trivialised and exoticised in the mainstream Western media as states crucial to the Wes
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
