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Muna Khan

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Built on divisions

Built on divisions

What is it like to watch one’s home being razed to the ground?

yesterday 60

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Class notes

Class notes

If we’re so bad in the news media, how would you do it differently?

26.01.2025 70

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No one’s hero

No one’s hero

The coverage of child sexual abuse has been grounded in racism.

19.01.2025 80

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Real pain

Real pain

The memory of the Holocaust is kept alive at the cost of other genocides.

12.01.2025 100

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A matter of trust

I CAME across a great word coined by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne: “hope-monger”. Despite the adversarial policies/role of Trump and Musk...

05.01.2025 4

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Triumph not torture

WHEN I landed in Manila in 2017 for a holiday, I was greeted by signs at the airport welcoming ‘Bagong Bayani’, a term coined by President Corazon...

29.12.2024 7

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Beyond schools

IN 2019, when I was teaching full time, our institute collaborated with a university in Canada in their Global Reporting Programme where three of...

22.12.2024 10

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Syria on my mind

IN the mid-2000s, my sister was living in Damascus and I planned a visit to her and then a trip to Lebanon, together. But I could not secure a visa...

15.12.2024 3

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Free the press

I WROTE to three different friends to tell them a video clip they shared from journalist Talat Hussain’s vlog on Nov 30 was edited and a...

08.12.2024 3

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Our own PTSD

I AM proposing a new ailment unique to Pakistanis: Perpetual-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I am not making light of our situation. On the contrary,...

01.12.2024 3

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Image of the past

I ENVY my parents for living in Karachi when they did. My father, like others who lived here between the 1950s to Gen Zia’s accession, describes a...

24.11.2024 10

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Et tu, Maryam?

HOW much should we know about Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s health? As a public official, should her health be up for the media’s scrutiny?...

17.11.2024 4

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State of the art

I MADE new friends with smart high school students at NED University which was one of the sites hosting the Karachi Biennale this year. We were in...

10.11.2024 4

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Paper tiger?

I WAS a graduate student during the 2016 presidential elections where I learned a lot about American media’s coverage of elections. We don’t...

03.11.2024 2

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Fighting toxic talk

I HAD to step outside social media silos to understand what was happening in Lahore, because my trusted sources — ie, this newspaper and other...

20.10.2024 3

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Disgraced media

LAST week, I wrote a piece on Western media’s coverage of the war in Gaza for Prism on the Dawn website. I re-read part of Edward Said’s 1981 book...

13.10.2024 10

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Burying the lede in Gaza for 75 years

“You cannot continue to victimise someone else just because you yourself were a victim once — there has to be a limit.” Edward Said wrote this...

06.10.2024 40

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Digital eternity

WE’VE probably imagined some version of ‘I wish I had the chance to tell [someone] how much I loved them before they died’. I don’t have such...

29.09.2024 2

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The way she wore

ON the day I sat down to write this piece about a PTI leader’s objection to a woman’s clothing, this paper’s front page carried a photograph of...

25.08.2024 6

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Brick in the wall

I HAD to join Facebook, Twitter and Slack when I started graduate school in 2016 — for different messaging purposes. I thought all of this could be...

18.08.2024 2

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‘Not Pakistan’

NOTHING gets me into a tizzy faster than hearing some iteration of ‘this is not Pakistan’. And inevitably, women and/ or young men attempting to...

04.08.2024 2

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FICTION: WITNESS TO TRAGEDIES

Brotherless Night  By V.V. Ganeshananthan  Penguin Random House ISBN: 978-0812978278  384pp. Sometimes a book is truly worthy of the award it...

28.07.2024 7

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Beat the rich

A SMALL part of me agrees with actor Noman Ijaz who took to Instagram to slam critics of Anant Ambani’s wedding. The family spent their own money...

28.07.2024 1

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Past the point

THOUGH not from a very religious family, I take the 9th and 10th of Muharram pretty seriously. It’s a sombre time — and one that has been observed...

21.07.2024 2

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