The Spinning Head http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh A Photographer Confronts His World Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Trying To Make Sense Of Pakistan http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/06/11/trying-to-make-sense-of-pakistan/ http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/2013/06/11/trying-to-make-sense-of-pakistan/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:51:38 +0000 arafiqui http://www.asimrafiqui.com/tsh/?p=6177

Our despair is a result of our lack of a sense of history. You have to understand that we have arrived where we are as a nation as a result of specific historical choices, and understanding the reasons for those

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Part 1 of this 5-part series is here: Photojournaliam, Advocacy And Eurocentrism – Part 1: There Is No Other But Us

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Part 1 of this 5-part series is here: Photojournaliam, Advocacy And Eurocentrism – Part 1: There Is No Other But Us

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It was quite simply, but provocatively titled, Leaving Tehran And Restraints Behind and very, very simplistically – in fact I would argue, cartoonishly constructed and photographed. The entire story is …

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Part 1 of this 5-part series is here: Photojournaliam, Advocacy And Eurocentrism – Part 1: There Is No Other But Us

Part 2 …

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Part 1 of this 5-part series is here: Photojournaliam, Advocacy And Eurocentrism – Part 1: There Is No Other But Us

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There Is No Other But Us

The Congolese is missing. The world created in the video game Zero Hour: Congo is based …

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…Since 1945, the decolonization of Asia and Africa, plus the sharply accentuated political consciousness of the non-European world everywhere, has affected the world of knowledge just as much as it has affected the politics of the world-system. One major such

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