Joyland, directed by Saim Sadiq, has become one of Pakistan’s most controversial films. The movie is about Haider, a stay-at-home-husband, who is forced to find a job due to pressure from his father and ends up working as a backup … Continue reading
Category: South Asia
The Right to Education for Rohingya Refugee Children
The Rohingya crisis reached its height in August of 2017, with hundreds of thousands of Rohingya muslims facing serious danger in their home region of Rakhine State of Burma (also known as Myanmar). The Rohingya are a muslim ethnic minority … Continue reading
Non-Alignment and the Burden of Pacifism
The future of the non-aligned movement in geopolitics has been made unclear by recent shifts. Non-alignment has long been a convenient solution for states whose ideological leanings do not clearly correspond to those of hegemonic powers. The movement is composed … Continue reading
Les nouvelles routes de la soie dix ans après, des promesses tenues?
Les nouvelles routes de la soie ou “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) est le projet de développement le plus important à l’échelle internationale depuis le début du 21ème siècle. Étant le projet du président chinois Xi Jinping … Continue reading
Swimming in Stasis: The Failures of Pakistani Governance in Flood Management in 2022
Pakistan is underwater again. Satellite imaging has found that a third of the country has experienced severe flooding, including the formation of a new 100km wide inland lake in the Sindh Province. However, Pakistan has endured deadly floods for decades before 2022; the country is naturally predisposed to flooding and has a long history of extreme weather due to monsoon rains. The 21st century is no exception.
The Overlooked Refugee Crisis – The Rohingya
When asked to ponder over the refugee crisis, our minds immediately reroute towards the Syrian refugee crisis or, more recently, the Ukrainian refugees owing to the unceasing media attention they garner. However, the largest refugee camp belongs to Myanmar’s Rohingya refugee crisis. Sporadically recognized as ‘forgotten’ or ‘neglected’ by political writers such as CBC’s Nick Logan and Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom, this piece aims to shed light on the lives of 1.1 million refugees and capture the political essence through time and other dimensions.
The Franco-Cambodian Medical Collaboration: A Reality Today?
How is it that, over 70 years after the independence of Cambodia, French is still used in the Cambodian medical field? Where does this relationship come from? How long will the language survive? These questions are addressed below.
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Spreading but Not Travelling
Globally, the negative repercussions of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have been experienced by numerous sectors that contribute to the world’s economy, including international travel and tourism. Border closures and restrictions regarding non-essential travel in an attempt to contain the virus heavily affected such travel rates and the accompanying industries within these sectors, resulting in millions of jobs lost, a decline in tourism, and a substantial loss in the GDP - both worldwide and within nations.
India vs. China: Two Nations’ Struggle For Better Vaccine Diplomacy
The Sino-Indian border dispute being at a standstill, the two rising nations are now competing not through violence, but by asserting their power through international influence, such as through vaccine diplomacy. While there are humanitarian and altruistic purposes involved, the political ambition behind the campaign of exporting COVID-19 vaccines to neighbouring countries is worth discussing.
The Myth of the Oriental Beauty: The History of the Hypersexualization of Asian Women
After nearly 200 years, Asian women are still not being given the respect and dignity that they deserve, all because of a sick and incorrect stereotype. When will the world stop seeing Asian women through this hypersexualizing and dehumanizing filter?