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What is it like to watch one’s home being razed to the ground?
If we’re so bad in the news media, how would you do it differently?
The coverage of child sexual abuse has been grounded in racism.
The memory of the Holocaust is kept alive at the cost of other genocides.
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...
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...
IN 2019, when I was teaching full time, our institute collaborated with a university in Canada in their Global Reporting Programme where three of...
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...
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...
I AM proposing a new ailment unique to Pakistanis: Perpetual-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I am not making light of our situation. On the contrary,...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
I HAD to step outside social media silos to understand what was happening in Lahore, because my trusted sources — ie, this newspaper and other...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brotherless Night By V.V. Ganeshananthan Penguin Random House ISBN: 978-0812978278 384pp. Sometimes a book is truly worthy of the award it...
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...
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...