Little Pakistan: Brooklyn’s Coney Island Avenue

This article does not discuss racism or race relations. Instead, it hopes to capture how a community has gone through such adversity and is coming back to life, after almost losing it.

Europe and the Film Culture

Despite the speculated aggressive reactions, the film “Fitna” was released on the Internet on March 27, 2008.

Men's Liberation...Better Late Than Never

It is ironic that those men who become caring towards their wives are sometimes called sissy, wimp and 'zan mureed'

The Sudanese Teddy Bear Saga

President Omar al-Bashir decided to overturn a court ruling convicting Gillian Gibbons for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, a rare victory for progressive, moderate Islam.

Who Celebrates the Resident Indian?

Indian (especially, the American NRI) is now held up as an ideal model of Indian identity for the era of globalization.

The YouTube Baby

Even though it may have seemed an exciting prospect for many watching a young (bearded) man standing up to the most powerful person in the country, yes, but about what was he standing up for?

’Moderate’ vs ’Severe’ Muslims

‘Our Liberals’ and Minority Psyche

Although they enjoy all the benefits of the society, they are the people who do not identify themselves with the majority of the people dwelling the country.

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

Know Your Enemy

Interestingly, what I am beginning to feel more and more bothered by are the very English speaking Pakistanis I feel most similar to. Like the mullahs, they had little to do with the creation of Pakistan but now keep suggesting they are the best in

Bravo!

The nazim barging into Ali Haider's flat... is this a trailer for a Ziaist future? We've had enough of trailers highlighting assorted Ziaist tendencies and Taliban whip-lash in the MMA ruled NWFP. So why should we in Karachi feel so 'liberal' and safe?

Ghada Karmi: The Strength of Palestinian Narrative in the Face of Violence

She continues to hold the belief that Palestinian statehood is a goal that can be achieved with the use of all options

Oh America!

For a society that watched the Gulf war as though it were a TV serial, why was I often told not to take pictures of people in the street?

America

. Look at how those ungrateful bastards paid us for our kindness?

Searching for my identity

Searching for your identity as a second generation Pakistani in Britain.

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• Pakistan Elections 2008 - An analysis
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