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Homebound shows how oppression teaches us to hate ourselves
Recently, I took myself to watch Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, whose storyline I can describe as not only heartbreaking but also defiant, considering the current political climate of India. Of course I had to watch this film, not because I heard good reviews, but because it is based on Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer’s NYT piece A…
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How are Muslim women reclaiming Islamic interpretations of gender?
This piece was originally published on The Middle East Beat, which I am reproducing here, as the publication seems to have gone defunct. The clash between what we know as feminism and Islam has for decades centred around whether women have rights in Islam and how the interpretations of the Qur’an, view women second to…
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Journalism ethics as a mobile app: why one Turkish student journalist decided to venture into game journalism
Originally posted on Online Journalism Blog: Game journalism — using games to inform audiences about current news events — has become an established form. But few games are created to simulate the experience of journalists themselves — and even fewer still are launched while the author is still a student. In a guest post for…
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