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Book Review: “Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity” by Mahmood Mamdani
In many cases in Africa today, political conflicts are debated through language of citizenship and language of culture; the former defending equal rights of “settlers” and the latter defending tradit… more →
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Book Review: "Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity" by Mahmood Mamdani
wrote 2 weeks ago: In many cases in Africa today, political conflicts are debated through language of citizenship and … more →
Zanzibar yataka kudhibiti uvaaji wa vimini
wrote 1 month ago: Zanzibar kwa muda mrefu imepiga marufuku ushiriki wa maonesho ya urembo kwa lengo la kudhibiti tamad … more →
SMZ kuwanyanganya ardhi vigogo
wrote 1 month ago: Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar imesema itawanyanganya na kurudisha Serikalini ardhi itaka … more →
Book Review: Guban by Abdi Latif Ega
wrote 1 month ago: The events unfolding around the political arrest of an apolitical businessman tells the story of a p … more →
Antonio de Sosa’s Moors/Moros in 'Topography of Algiers'
wrote 2 months ago: In Covarrubia’s seventeenth century dictionary Tesoro de La Lengua Castellana O Española, moro (from … more →
Modeling the Collective Hero: An Interview with Egyptian Playwright Ibrahim El-Husseiny
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wrote 2 months ago: Ibrahim El-Husseiny wrote the play “Comedy of Sorrows” only a few months after Egyptian … more →
Plural Sources of Kashmiri Myths
wrote 2 months ago: Distinguished by their ability to imagine the unimaginable and assign meaning to meaningless, human … more →
"Freedom must be an Ideal with a Social Content"
wrote 2 months ago: From The Sunday Observer of October 22, 1944 The following message was sent by Mr. M.N. Roy to the … more →
Happy Birthday Baraza, Part 3
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wrote 2 months ago: For our last group celebration post, we all reflected on what being a part of the Baraza means to us … more →
Spectacle as a continuing site of protest and defiance: the Harlem Shake in Egypt
wrote 2 months ago: A Harlem state of mind. Music. Rhythm. Black beauty. Soul. Culture. Defiance. Harlem intrigues and i … more →
Happy Birthday Baraza Group Post 1
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wrote 2 months ago: This week our crew of lovely ladies reflect back on the year that was the Baraza. Today we asked, wh … more →
Reconsidering the Shia as the 'Other' in Pakistan
wrote 2 months ago: January 10th, 2013 marked one of the worst episode of Shia genocide in Pakistan when two bomb blasts … more →
Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy
wrote 2 months ago: Five Questions with Dr. Khaled Fahmy-Question 1 from Baraza Video on Vimeo. 2011 has marked a new mo … more →
Good Violence, Bad Violence
wrote 2 months ago: Written in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Mahmood Mamdani’s 2005 book Good Muslim, BadMuslim h … more →
Haiku hell?
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wrote 3 months ago: This morning I am over at the Baraza, lost my mind, you see I’ve been writing silly haiku, can … more →
Five Questions with V.S. Achuthanandan with an Introduction by Prof. Prabhat Patnaik
wrote 3 months ago: V.S.ACHUTHANANDAN by Prof. Prabhat Patnaik (scroll down for the video) It is difficult these days, a … more →
Images from the Present and a Letter from the Past
wrote 3 months ago: These pictures were taken at the Dalit Adivasi Mahasamelanam, in November 2012, where tens of thousa … more →
"Sumeida's Song: giving operatic voice to revolution in Egypt"
wrote 3 months ago: “Egypt is heading towards civil war”, composer Mohammed Fairouz plainly states in discus … more →
I'm famous (ish)
wrote 3 months ago: I’m being interviewed by writer and equestrian Katie Shaw over at the Baraza today – I … more →
