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Oral histories serve as a challenge to the evidence in the colonial archive.
Pakistan’s laws against blasphemy have been used to bring cases against numerous people over the years, and in particular, the country’s religious minorities.
Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
Jinnah insisted on secular education, gender equality and equal rights for minorities – all of which remain unrealized dreams in Pakistan.
Studying local Africans’ contributions to the abolition of slavery provides a fuller understanding of its history.
Nkrumah’s rhetorical vision used the politics of the crowd to build a postcolonial community outside of the conscripts of colonialism.
As cremation grounds struggle to keep up with the long line of people dying from COVID-19, age-old customs are being pushed aside.
Pakistan, created during the 1947 partition, comprised two geographical areas, separated by over a thousand miles. The fault lines between the two regions resulted in the birth of Bangladesh.
A hundred years ago, peaceful Indian protesters were massacred under British colonial rule. A scholar argues why a formal apology is overdue.
Turkey and the EU are trading insults over the rights to exploit the huge gas reserves over the eastern Mediterranean island.
India and Pakistan have been fighting for control over Kashmir, an 86,000-square-mile territory in the Himalayas, for seven decades. But the people of Kashmir have their own political goals too.
Hosay, a religious ritual performed by Trinidadian Muslims, combines the somber Islamic observance of Ashura, brought by immigrant Indians, and the joy of Trinidad’s famous carnival.
Before colonialism, India embraced homosexuality and gender fluidity. The Supreme Court’s repeal of a 157-year-old gay sex ban partially reclaims that history, but LGBTQ Indians still face hurdles.
With Pope Francis recently elevating a Pakistani archbishop as cardinal, a scholar traces the history of persecution of the 2.5 million Christians of Pakistan.
The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters. A one-size-fits-all approach to solving Zimbabwe’s complex set of problems simply won’t help.
With just 67 words, a British foreign secretary kicked off a hundred years of conflict and displacement.
For Gandhi, whose birth anniversary is Monday, Oct. 2, nonviolent resistance meant placing one’s own body in harm’s way to expose social injustices, which made it a powerful political tool.
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Professor of Religion, University of Florida
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Professor of History, William & Mary
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Affiliate Researcher, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Bayreuth University
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Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Professor of African Studies, University of Leeds
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Stetson University
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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Senior Professorial Lecturer of Global Governance, Politics and Security, American University School of International Service
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
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Associate Professor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies/ History, University of Oxford