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Are You Happy To See Me Or Is That A Minaret In Your Lederhosen?

arafiqui wrote 1 week ago: The decision is stupid, disgraceful and racist. I have expressed my views on it in an earlier post c … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Clash of Civilizations?, democracy, Islam, Islamophobia, muslims, Orientalism

'Going Muslim' At Fort Hood Or How Rabid Simplicities Masquerading As Insight Just Sell More Magazines

arafiqui wrote 2 weeks ago: UPDATE: A recent article in The Boston Review, titled God, The Army & PTSD by Tara McKelvey rais … more →

Tags: Our Wars, The Daily Discussion, Clash of Civilizations?, Crimes Against Humanity, Imperialism, Islam, Islamofacism, Islamofascism, muslims

Saying 'Fuck Off' In Muslim And Why I Say It So Often!

arafiqui wrote 3 weeks ago: I was days away from penning a piece about how we should neither ask or give ‘collectivist … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Islamophobia, racism

Who Was That Busker You Gave 50c To? The Same I Paid $100 To See The Night Before!

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL … more →

Tags: Music, Bach

Where The Head Spun: November 13th 2009

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: A wide range of issues came across recently and though I would love to wax lyrical about all of them … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, Our Wars, The Daily Discussion, Terrorism, West Bank, Anti-Semitism, Israel, War crimes, Pakistan

Offering Silence To The Oppressed Or How Photography Can Become A Weapon Of Repression1 comment

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: An exhibition called ‘Beware The Cost Of War’ recently opened in London. Reading about i … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, Journalism, Our Wars, The Daily Discussion, West Bank, Gaza, War crimes, On Photography, Crisis of Photojournalism

Pakistan In A Nutshell Or Examples in Failures Of The Imagination

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: Pakistan Receives First of 18 Lockheed F-18C Fighter/Bombers for which it paid nearly $2,000,000,000 … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Pakistan

Photo Projects I Like: Jörg Brüggemann's "Same Same But Different"1 comment

arafiqui wrote 2 months ago: Backpackers are mildly delusional. I mean that in the most serious way. They travel to some of the m … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Photo Technique, On Photography

The Hindus Live In Small And Dark Homes Or Educating Our Child Soldiers

arafiqui wrote 2 months ago: The minds of children are usually shut inside prison houses, so that they become incapable of unders … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Our Wars, Pakistan, Clash of Civilizations?, Crimes Against Humanity, India, History, Islam, muslims

The New India? Or How It Became Just Like Everyone Else!

arafiqui wrote 2 months ago: I came across this piece in the recent issue of Granta and it made for depressing reading. Capital G … more →

Tags: Journalism, The Daily Discussion, Background Materials, Pakistan, India, The West

Losing My Religion To Tomorrow's Headlines

arafiqui wrote 5 months ago: Via Sepia Mutiny: This is RizMC … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Our Wars, War Against Terror, Clash of Civilizations?, Imperialism, middle east, democracy, Islam, muslims

Realities, Myths, Fantasies & Paranoias: The Muslims - Get To Know Them Series

arafiqui wrote 5 months ago: Professor Yoginder Sikand recently posted an extensive review of Abdelwahab El-Affendi’s Who N … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Pakistan, Clash of Civilizations?, middle east, India, History, Islam, muslims

Great Moments In Film History: The Bat Mitzvah Singer, Starsky & Hutch

arafiqui wrote 5 months ago: The singer is Dan Finnerty, and the scene is from the otherwise lame movie re-make of the tv series … more →

Tags: Hollywood Classics, Waste of time...

A Kinda/Sorta Conversation With Magnum's Peter Marlow

arafiqui wrote 6 months ago: No I have actually never had a conversation with the great Peter Marlow. I have never even met him. … more →

Tags: Journalism, Photography, Photo Technique, On Photography, Crisis of Photojournalism

How The Israeli Arms Industry Learned To Dance With Bollywood.

arafiqui wrote 9 months ago: Rafael is an Israeli arms manufacturer and here is their attempt to convince ‘feminine’ … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, Our Wars, West Bank, Gaza, Israel, Colonialism, Occupation

An Unnecessary Education

arafiqui wrote 9 months ago: One of first things my father exclaimed when I returned from the USA with an engineering degree in h … more →

Tags: The Daily Discussion, Writers, Poetry, democracy, Education, Humanities

Dialogue Between Bigots: Part VI of VI

arafiqui wrote 12 months ago: This is the final installment of the interview, part VI, of ‘Dialogue Between Bigots’ ED … more →

Tags: Journalism, Our Wars, Terrorism, War Against Terror, Afghanistan, Imperialism, Colonialism, middle east, iraq

Dialogue Between Bigots: Part V of VI

arafiqui wrote 12 months ago: This is part V of the interview ‘Dialogue Between Bigots’ AR: I think you are being very … more →

Tags: Journalism, Our Wars, Terrorism, War Against Terror, Afghanistan, Imperialism, Colonialism, middle east, iraq

Dialogue Between Bigots; Part IV of VI

arafiqui wrote 12 months ago: This is Part IV of the interview ‘Dialogue Between Bigots’ EDITOR: Whereas I agree with … more →

Tags: Journalism, Our Wars, Terrorism, War Against Terror, Afghanistan, Imperialism, Colonialism, middle east, iraq


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