By Ismael Pharoun Back in 2015, in my first academic year on my way to the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, I would regularly pass by Hillel Street, Agron Street (Ma’man Allah Street) and King George Street. These are central and well-known streets in Jerusalem. I…
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By Khandoker Upama Kabir Back in 1947 when the British left the Indian subcontinent, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw a border to divide the Indian subcontinent into two countries, Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. In doing so, he created West…
ESR Maitri Dore published an article in the Failed Architecture on how the right wing in India is making vigorous attempts to rewrite Indian history. The project to assert the narrative of a Hindu golden age is concomitant with painting Muslims as invaders. With the excavation…