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Representing Migration: Two photographers creating new ways to see history and sanctuary

August 9, 2019Ashley Okwuosa, Soumya Sankar Bose, Cinthya Santos-Briones

Images that challenge us to see migration differently

Review

P/partition: Urvashi Butalia's Volume of Essays in Lower Case

September 8, 2017

Shruti Devgan reviews Partition: The Long Shadow edited by Urvashi Butalia.

In the News: Captain America, Serpents, Google's Gods, and more!

October 22, 2014

A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.

Turning the Uyghur East

October 22, 2014

Umar Farooq reports from Pakistan and China on the history and present of Uyghur Muslims.

Religion and Press Freedom in the Digital Age – Part One: Information on Trial

June 10, 2014

The first in a series of posts on issues at the intersection of press freedom, religion, digital media and...

What’s wrong with Googling loss?

June 10, 2014

Shruti Devgan finds what's missing in Google's promise to repair sacred losses.

Diminishing Returns: Sufi Shrines in Pakistan's Politics

January 15, 2014

From Pakistan, Umar Farooq looks at the diminishing political role of Sufi saints and shrines in a rapidly urbanizing...

Hitting the Wall: Art in Pakistan

December 5, 2013

From Karachi, Saba Imtiaz reports on the art scene in Pakistan and the challenges artists face when they choose...

Above Class and Clerics: The Saga of Heer Ranjha

June 14, 2013

By Saba Imtiaz In Pakistan's Punjab province, shrines to the doomed lovers of epic sagas are not only testament...

Pakistan's Lost Vote

May 13, 2013

In Pakistan, polling is over and the votes have been counted but the voice of one group has not...

Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: Christians Come Under Attack in Lahore

March 11, 2013

By Saba Imtiaz A violent mob ransacked and burned the homes of more than a hundred Christian families in...

A Marked Life

March 4, 2013

By Saba Imtiaz In 1984, Pakistan's military ruler, General Zia-ul-Haq, changed the country's Constitution, making it a crime for...

In The World

February 11, 2013

By Natasja Sheriff The latest news on religious freedom, at home and abroad, provides the focus of this week's...

The Globalization of Blasphemy

July 18, 2012

by Austin Dacey The Indian Penal Code was drafted in 1837 by the Indian Law Commission...In their commentaries,...

The Urgency and the Lunacy

June 22, 2011

A Q&A with biographer Deborah Baker, author of The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, released last...

Bangladesh (Further) Surrenders Secularism

June 22, 2011

Kathryn Montalbano: This week, the Bangladeshi government has pushed to retain the state's Islamic status, a move that requires...

Give Us This Day Our Daily Links

March 7, 2011

Jesus Greeks! Of course we don't endorse primary candidates (Mitt Romney 5.0)! But if we could... Jews in...

Daily Links 30 November 2004

November 30, 2004

“That’s Simply Not True.” Cheers to Anderson Cooper for breaking out of the “objectivity” mold that usually lets guys like Jerry...