Nov 18, 2025
Forever Ending Islam By Shehla Khan i Blog 124 Faisal Devji’s essay in the Open Magazine (August 2025) entitled ‘The End of Islam’ and subtitled ‘Is the religion’s journey as an agent of history over?’, introduces readers to his recently published volume, Waning...
Dec 27, 2023
Is Afropessimism a form of Black Orientalism? By Syed Mustafa Ali i Blog 87 According to Sherman A. Jackson (2005) Black Orientalism, “…seeks to cast the Arab/Muslim world as a precursor to and then an imitator of the West in the latter’s history of...
Nov 10, 2023
Israeli Occupation & Greek Tragedy By Marchella Ward i Blog 84 Image Credit: https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7652982/photo-image-vintage-art-public-domain (Public Domain, Free CCO 1.0 image) Like most millennials, I rarely stumble across newspaper articles in...
Oct 6, 2023
Critical Muslim Studies and Critical Ancient … In the realm of popular culture, representations of ancient Greeks and Romans abound in the West and Western adjacent societies. Classics, primarily focused on the study of Greeks and Romans, serve as Western...
Jul 7, 2023
Pakistan: Reframing the Debate This episode features the second part of a series on the Political Struggle in Pakistan. Professor Salman Sayyid, Dr. Sher Ali Tareen and Dr. Shehla Khan critically explore liberalism, populism and secularism. Focusing on how these...
