“But what was wanting in the coverage was an understanding of the problem… — patriarchal society itself.” Sana Ullah writes on honour killing from the point of view of a lawyer who works with the men who commit it.
“Following every international or domestic terrorism act committed by a Muslim, the American-Muslim community divides under pressure…” Sharmin Sadequee investigates the meaning and repercussions of collective responsibility.
“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
“In Asia alone, there live 4.4 billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people. But when top-notch recruitment firms in the West claim they found a new multimillion pay-packet CEO after a “global” search, just how global was it?” Vinay Kolhatkar continues his investigation into the prejudice against foreigners in the Western working world.
“…the glass-ceiling bias impeding immigrants is manifested in a bias against those speaking with non-native accents, the strongest signal of immigrant status — detected quickly and apparent almost continuously.” Vinay Kolhatkar investigates the glass ceiling for immigrants in English-speaking countries.
“It is an erroneous, and often tragic, colonial fantasy to perceive Africans as vague and abject creatures plucked from wild, virgin territory for the benefit of culture, civilisation and the formation of identifiable consciousness.” Part two of Sanya Osha’s look into slavery’s forgotten history.
“The economies of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal and France would not be what they are presently without the transatlantic slave trade.” Sanya Osha looks at the history of the African slave trade and what it means today.
“The immigrant keeps alive a period of history, with customs, memories and words that have become archaic and yet remain an existential necessity.” Arturo Desimone analyses his experience at the “Read My World” lit fest in Amsterdam.
“This Thanksgiving, I will sit down to turkey with all the trimmings and stuff my face, celebrating as any Native American would, but I will do so far away from my home.” Scott Bear Don’t Walk considers Thanksgiving
“As Muslim women in America, we often find ourselves at a crossroads…” Tan Nazer and Zoha Qamar are two young Muslim women with something to say.