I recently came across this publishing initiative on instagram. Since I found their project so fascinating, I requested the founders for more information so that I could lend them my [...]
Life in Academia This life in academia is actually my second career. I am a combat veteran who came to academic life after spending most of my youth in [...]
About ten years ago, my former department went through a collective soul-searching in the process of defining our departmental mission. There were two competing visions of literary studies that became [...]
Courtesy The Friday Times (Note: This is a modified version of an article published in Friday Times, Lahore) We often hear, in public and private conversations, that Pakistani [...]
(This is an excerpt from the conclusion of my recent book: ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics and Counter Narratives.) There are some brilliantly researched books on ISIS, I consulted most of them, [...]
The World We Inhabit and the Need for Change In one of his works, Emmanuel Levinas poses a set of important ethical questions about the nature of our interactions with [...]
I have noticed that I am always at a loss when someone asks me: What do you mean by postcolonialism? The answer, invariably always, involves a convoluted explanation of [...]