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This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special edition. The eZine can be viewed on ISSUU by clicking on this link. In my feminism class at NYUAD, I teach an essay titled “Just Stop” by Egyptian photojournalist Eman Hilal. Each semester, it elicits a powerful reaction from my...
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This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special edition. To read the eZine, click this link. I am tired of skin. I am tired of the way women’s skin seem to swallow up their kidneys, aortas, phalanges. For all the space taken up by skin in public discourse,...
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This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special edition. The eZine can be viewed on the ISSUU platform by clicking on this link. Oppression and inflicting violence come in many forms. The most recognized, however, are through pleasure and…, through pain. The former is strategically designed to be...
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This editorial is part of Ananke's 10th anniversary special edition celebrating the platform's work. You can view the eZine here. a haze of red blind A Libretto for a wisp like single ? being presence shadow thought gesture able to float on toes made movement made...
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This editorial is part of Ananke's 10th anniversary special edition celebrating the platform's work. You can view the eZine here. It was a decade ago that the idea of Ananke was born. The birth of a new idea is always a moment of excitement and fear – even...
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Art imitates life. It not only mirrors society, but also supplies a mirror through which social norms, taboos, stereotypes and deeply entrenched belief systems can be discovered by a discerning eye. Indeed, as with all other societal manifestations, darkness can be easily transported, translated and expressed in art form....
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Let’s get one thing straight, the Kamala Harris debacle – if one can call it that – is not because of her being a woman. Granted, it may have played a part in the US elections 2024 specifically for the voters, but surely a very miniscule part. This assertion...
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There is not a moment that goes by when the infallible Western media is not ready to judge, patronize or pounce and vilify states across the Global South or in the Middle East about their ‘wrong-doings.’ Be it events of any kind, diplomatic relationships, human rights issue; the list...
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Of late, language or rather the mechanisms and machinations of language have become an incessant obsession. From time immemorial, all tools of language and expression – be it the hieroglyphics of old, Lutheran Pamphlets, censored blank spaces in Pakistani dailies in the 80s, Mahsa Amini’s image, Mahmud Darwish’s lilting...
This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special edition. The eZine can be viewed on ISSUU by clicking on this link. In my feminism class at NYUAD, I teach an essay titled “Just Stop” by Egyptian photojournalist Eman Hilal. Each semester, it elicits a powerful reaction from my...
This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special edition. To read the eZine, click this link. I am tired of skin. I am tired of the way women’s skin seem to swallow up their kidneys, aortas, phalanges. For all the space taken up by skin in public discourse,...
This article is part of Ananke’s 10th anniversary special edition. The eZine can be viewed on the ISSUU platform by clicking on this link. Oppression and inflicting violence come in many forms. The most recognized, however, are through pleasure and…, through pain. The former is strategically designed to be...
This editorial is part of Ananke's 10th anniversary special edition celebrating the platform's work. You can view the eZine here. a haze of red blind A Libretto for a wisp like single ? being presence shadow thought gesture able to float on toes made movement made...
This editorial is part of Ananke's 10th anniversary special edition celebrating the platform's work. You can view the eZine here. It was a decade ago that the idea of Ananke was born. The birth of a new idea is always a moment of excitement and fear – even...
Art imitates life. It not only mirrors society, but also supplies a mirror through which social norms, taboos, stereotypes and deeply entrenched belief systems can be discovered by a discerning eye. Indeed, as with all other societal manifestations, darkness can be easily transported, translated and expressed in art form....
Let’s get one thing straight, the Kamala Harris debacle – if one can call it that – is not because of her being a woman. Granted, it may have played a part in the US elections 2024 specifically for the voters, but surely a very miniscule part. This assertion...
There is not a moment that goes by when the infallible Western media is not ready to judge, patronize or pounce and vilify states across the Global South or in the Middle East about their ‘wrong-doings.’ Be it events of any kind, diplomatic relationships, human rights issue; the list...
Of late, language or rather the mechanisms and machinations of language have become an incessant obsession. From time immemorial, all tools of language and expression – be it the hieroglyphics of old, Lutheran Pamphlets, censored blank spaces in Pakistani dailies in the 80s, Mahsa Amini’s image, Mahmud Darwish’s lilting...
