Private university students played a unique role: with nothing to gain, they joined the July 2024 uprising in solidarity and helped topple the authoritarian regime.
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Afghans have constituted one of the world’s largest and most protracted displaced populations, with many unable to imagine “home.”
In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two award-winning writers: Camelia Dewan and Taran Khan, both contributors to our magazine. They speak to Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern. Camelia Dewan is an environmental anthropologist and Associate Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University. Her article, “Climate Refugees or
In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two esteemed scholars: Anthony Kwame Harrison and Andrew Fiala, both regular contributors to our magazine. They speak to Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern. Anthony Kwame Harrison is a writer, teacher, skier, and Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. His articleThe Inconvenience of
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In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with three esteemed writers. Kaniqua Robinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Furman University, wrote ‘Except as a Punishment for Crime’: Black Labor and the US Criminal Justice System for issue 39, Labour. Karthick Ram Manoharan, faculty at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, most recently
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Youth activists from Afghanistan and Cambodia join Shuddhashar FreeVoice and Oslo Scholars to discuss diaspora activism, student movements, and the power—and pitfalls—of social media in defending education, democracy, and freedom of expression. In this webinar, “Connected Struggles: Social Media and Youth Movements from Afghanistan to Cambodia,” youth activists Samady Ou and Friba Rezayee and our
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A year ago this month, Bangladesh witnessed its largest student protest movement in history. After the government responded with violent suppression that left hundreds dead and countless more wounded, the protests surged into a mass anti-government, pro-democracy campaign. Students and ordinary citizens from different sectors in society stood together against a repressive regime, and on
Bangladeshi women played a prominent role in the July mass uprising that liberated Bangladesh from the stranglehold of an authoritarian regime. Their participation in equal measure alongside men gave the movement crucial energy and moral strength, helping it succeed. In post-authoritarian Bangladesh, however, women find themselves largely excluded from the nation-remaking initiative. Their contribution to
The military training aircraft tragedy that killed several children in Dhaka was not only avoidable but also indicative of pervasive mismanagement, incompetence, and callousness.
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Bangladesh must end its pervasive culture of mob justice, vindictive politics, and the harassment and arrest of individuals without substantiated evidence.
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We are deeply troubled by reports of another US military intervention in the Middle East. The US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities mark a dangerous escalation in a conflict between Israel and Iran that risks becoming an all-out regional war. What is particularly concerning is President Trump’s remark that his country will use greater military
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