Authenticity and Essentialism: Video and Transcript
Provided below is a transcript of my Youtube video on the topics of Authenticity and Essentialism. Video: Transcript Hello, welcome to Postcolonial Space I'm here again today trying to [...]
Introducing UNT Pakistan Student Scholarship Fund: How to Apply and How to Donate to the Fund?
(Note: These are my own private opinions and should not be construed as official views from UNT) In this video I introduce the students and potential donors to the "International [...]
Free Weekly Webinars: Postcolonialism, Literary Theory, Pedagogy and More
I just wanted to share that i have decided to offer weekly webinars through my Youtube Channel every week. My plan is to offer focused webinars of postcolonialism, literary theory [...]
CFP: MLA Panel on Islam after 9/11
Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Islam after 9/11 Even though Said’s Orientalism critiqued the western view of Islam as a fixed force, Muslims were seen as a distant danger living in faraway [...]
Book Summary: Wide Sargasso Sea, By Jean Rhys
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966. London/ New York: Norton, 1999. Introduction Published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea is an interventionist novel that tells the silenced story of Bertha Mason, [...]
Seeking Suggestions about Pakistaniaat
Most of you are probably aware of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies (http://pakistaniaat.org), which I had launched in 2009. A few years ago, after a long hiatus, we [...]
The Power and Price of Dissent
The Power and Price of Dissent Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or an entity. The term's antonyms include agreement, consensus and [...]
Video and Audio Introduction to my Book on ISIS
Description from Amazon Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding [...]
Freire: The Banking System of Education
This is a brief lecture explaining Paulo Freire's discussion of the Banking Concept of Education. As one of the world's foremost theorist of education, Freire in his book, "Pedagogy of [...]
