The Spinning Head http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh A Photographer Confronts His World Tue, 21 May 2013 15:06:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Proudly Speaking Out On Behalf Of ‘Terrorists’ Or The Forever War And Its Silences http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/05/20/proudly-speaking-out-on-behalf-of-terrorists-or-the-forever-war-and-its-silences/ http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/05/20/proudly-speaking-out-on-behalf-of-terrorists-or-the-forever-war-and-its-silences/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:07:44 +0000 arafiqui http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/?p=6007 This essay was written as an introduction to my earliest attempts to produce a photographic work on the victims of America’s wars. Focusing on the communities living on the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) or Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) as it …

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If we can’t find them, we will invent them.

Time Magazine, now pretty much a mouth piece for not just American exceptional-ism, idealism, innocence and purity, but for the ignorance, bigotry, myopia and fear-mongering that fuels …

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Ben Rawlence’s book Radio Congo: Signals of Hope From Africa’s Deadliest War arrived in the mail today. I had met Ben in …

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I was so confident that I had written about his work on this blog that I even suggested to some of the students working with me on my Justice In Pakistan project to do a search on this, …

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They buried her and sent a message to Ranjha saying, ‘The hour of destiny has arrived. We had hoped otherwise but no one can escape the destiny of death. Even as it is written in the Holy Quran, ‘Everything is

…]]> http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/05/08/only-the-poetry-remains/feed/ 0 Exhaustion / Capitulation / Rejection / http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/05/04/exhaustion-capitulation-rejection/ http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/05/04/exhaustion-capitulation-rejection/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 11:18:13 +0000 arafiqui http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/?p=5898 I am tired of myself.

I have been tired of myself and the constant need to confront, challenge, critique, analyze, study and evaluate the works of others.

I am tired my instinct to constantly be alert against reductive histories and …

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