I also write for wider, non-academic audiences and am a founding editor of Jamhoor.
Launched in 2018, Jamhoor is a left media organization that amplifies marginalized and progressive voices from South Asia. We are also a member of the Progressive International.
Essays & Op-eds
2024. “Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy.” Boston Review, Jan 24th (with Noaman G. Ali)
2022. “Engineering Disaster.” Red Pepper, Winter 2022 (print issue): 14-16.
2022. “Flooding Has Devastated Pakistan – and Britain’s Imperial Legacy Has Made it Worse.” The Guardian, August 31st.
2017. "Pierre Bourdieu and Antonio Gramsci.” Fieldsight, Cultural Anthropology, February 15.
2012 “Review: The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan by Saadia Toor." Ceasefire Magazine.
2011. "Holding our Universities Accountable: The Case for Divestment." Rabble.ca, March 16th. (with Katherine Lapointe)
Interviews
2022. “Empire and its Enemies: A Conversation with Priyamvada Gopal.” Jamhoor, August 8th. (With Hadia Akhtar)
2021. “Caste, Race and the Left in Post-War Britain”. Jamhoor, April 28th (With Arsalan Samdani and Divyani Motla)
2019. “Theorizing Pakistan in Diaspora: The Pakistan Forum.” Jamhoor, July 2nd.
2018. “The Spectre of the ‘Urban Naxal’: An Interview with Sanjay Kak.” Jamhoor, October 8th.
2012 "Interview with Cornel West on Occupy, Obama and Marx." Counterpunch. (with Parmbir Gill)
TV and Multimedia
2022. Panelist, “Climate Apartheid: Does the West Owe a Debt to the Rest of the World?” TRT World: Roundtable. Sept 22nd.
2022. Commentator, “How is Extreme Weather Changing Pakistan?” The Stream, Al Jazeera, Sept 6th.
2021. “The Sufi and the Sickle: Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan”. Centre for Ethics. University of Toronto.
2021. “Decolonization, Agrarian Change and Peasant Struggles in Post-colonial Pakistan.” Introduction to Political Economy. (hosted by Noaman Ali, ft. Kasim Tirmizey)
2021. “Agrarian Change and Peasant Struggles in Colonial Pakistan.” Introduction to Political Economy. (hosted by Noaman Ali, ft. Kasim Tirmizey)