Tag Archives: Orientalism

Not Our Men

This habit of displacing patriarchy to the ‘Muslim’, has generated wealth and fame for many in South Asia, so much so that any and all attempts to remind people of the Orientalist lineages of the term, and the racial nature of its application, are often met with disdain and mockery. But the fact remains that […]

April 6, 2017 – 5:29 am | By arafiqui | Posted in Musings On Confusions, The Daily Discussion | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Not Our Men

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

It did not take long for overtly racist explanations to be offered. Before facts come fantasy, and before truth comes tabloid opinions masquerading as insight. And it arrived not in some radical, fringe magazine but in the pages of the international magazine Forbes by one of their regular contributors. (I of course ignore the determined […]

December 2, 2009 – 8:55 am | By arafiqui | Posted in Musings On Confusions | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on ‘Going Muslim’ At Fort Hood Or How Rabid Simplicities Masquerading As Insight Just Sell More Magazines

The Limits of Photojournalism

It is perhaps the most interesting, creative and compelling book of photography I have ever read. I have looked and read it over a dozen times in the last 8 years.  Edward Said & Jean Mohr’s ‘After The Last Sky: Palestinian Lives’ is perhaps the only example that I know of of a brilliant writer […]

December 31, 2008 – 3:45 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Journalism, Pakistan, Photography, Poetry, The Question Of Palestine | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Limits of Photojournalism