Against Silence: Writing in Exile
Exile is a cognitive and political structure, not merely an individual experience.
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Memory
Narratives Wars: How Jewish Scholars in Berlin Interpret Europe’s Migration Debates
Europe’s migration debates reveal fissures in Jewish intellectual discourse, forcing Europe to confront its layered history, identity, and sovereignty.
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Girmitiya Songs: Memory, Pain, and Resistance
The identity and cultural memories of the Girmitiyas, who were forced into indentured labour, are being contested today, often to suit present-day cultural and political narratives.
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Me and Music
For Afghan exiles, the music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds them to Afghanistan.
Delhi Kitchen, Kabul Heart
Even in exile, Afghan women resist invisibility through tea, through language, through songs, and through everyday work.
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“Stealing Fire”: Afghan Women Writers on Exile
This collective piece was produced as part of Paranda, a writer development programme and global network of women writers in Afghanistan and the diaspora, facilitated by Untold Narratives and supported by KFW Stiftung.
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Resisting Historical Isolation: The Importance of Archival Research
Youth movements can avoid isolation by grounding themselves in history.
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Memory as Power
Young people are the future keepers of memory in communities whose voices are never heard, who have experienced war and displacement. They can reclaim erased histories through education, activism, and storytelling, and in doing so, empower our communities and create a more just future.
A Letter To Lanka: Soil that Breaks, Soil that Binds
In a time where there is an acceleration of differences, and annihilation based on those differences is justified, we ought to never stop asking what it means to be a human being, what it means to belong and to not belong, and to be at home in the world.
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