A student-run magazine dismantling orientalist media perspective
By Saranjit Uppal Poetic legend, cultural icon, and activist spokesperson, Mahmoud Darwish’s work resonates with people across generations for its depiction and perspective
By Teja Dusanapudi A tree does not move. It remains rooted firmly in the ground, fruiting and flowering until storm or fire brings
By Radhika Marwaha Before her arrest on August 5, 2019, former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti (People’s Democratic Party, or PDP) expressed her concern
By Teja Dusanapudi Hold on to your saris, folks! Today, Trader Joe’s is becoming “Trader Raja’s.” Starting with a meal of fish korma
By Saranjit Uppal It’s not just Riz Ahmed’s recent song “Mogambo” that inspired this piece; a casual conversation amongst staff members of this
By Talia Basma Directed by Hiro Murai Released 2019 Who would have thunk it? Amazon released Guava Island and only had 55 minutes
By Teja Dusanapudi Smiling, happy, and picturesque, the faces of the Brady Bunch are icons of the 1970s to many, but perhaps to
By Teja Dusanapudi So says Anik Khan in his breakout song “Big Fax,” lounging on cars and rapping about “mixing up the masla
By Kiana Borjian first day of “Women in Islamicate Societies:” Why are you taking this class? I begin swirling like the dervishes my
By Kimia Akbari I’m floating by in twilight anesthesiaas Disgraceland overtly stares backfrom a distance;watching the jousting matchOf sufi mystics above polluted cloudswith
by Aarya Chidambaram Over 1 million Uighur Muslims have been detained in China across at least 1000 internment camps. They have been subjected
By Teja Dusanapudi “What if Iran had murdered Jamal Khashoggi?” posed journalist Reese Erlich, an arresting statement that prefaced the remainder of his
By Aarya Chidambaram Easily one of the worst parts of attending college some five hundred miles away from home is the fact that
“I remember my husband staring at me as the Myanmar Soldier put the gun towards his head and pulled the trigger,” recalled Mumtaz,
“Other,” a quite ordinary word, means something completely different to those who identify with the regions represented by Other Collective, including West Asia,