Category Culture/subculture
In order to unpack the culture and power of costumes that I saw in Ms. Marvel, I had to go back to Riz Ahmed’s article in The Guardian on being “Typecast as a Terrorist”. I was quite drawn to costume… Continue Reading →
Here is a speech Riz gave recently to the British parliament about a topic we’ve all been discussing in our course: the politics of representation. Take a look at the speech, and see if anything he says inspires you to… Continue Reading →
Lina Matta’s endeavor to showcase representations of the Middle East by people who are actually from the Middle East almost seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but is unfortunately something that it is relatively revolutionary. Her first-of-its-kind film festival of… Continue Reading →
(Note about picture – I really hate it when shalwar kameez are taken up by non-south asian people and made to look more like a tacky bed sheet than anything else) When I heard Red Baarat was coming to AD,… Continue Reading →
Today’s discussion in class on Sufi poetry and its branches in revered Sufi temples across South Asia made me dig deeper into the written trails of Bulleh Shah and the message he preached centuries before I was born. The short… Continue Reading →
I cannot say I fundamentally disagree with Riz Ahmed on the politics of representation of Muslims in the Western world, but I am quite confident when I say that our arguments intermingle like two planets that, perhaps, are not even… Continue Reading →
An unchallenged notion that seems to exist not only among individuals in the Global North, but also among elites and some of us in class, as well, is that the Muslim-majority societies, especially those in the Arab states, are largely… Continue Reading →
The discussion in class today on cross-cultural dialogue and the politics of representation, both intimately interwoven into location-specific gender narratives, made me think of a binary approach to popular culture and art by some Muslim artists who are of the community they… Continue Reading →