Ghazal Asif
@ghazalfarrukhi.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in religion, gender, and law in South Asia / Sindh | Asst Prof @LifeAtLUMS
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
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New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."
Walking Lahore, Watching the World - Public Books
The new mosque's central dome dominates the town's skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."
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“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”
NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war
-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"
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-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”
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🚨Tenure-track job🚨
Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
Baruch College - Assistant Professor - History of South Asia - New York City, New York (US) job with Baruch College | 37877043
Job Title: Baruch College - Assistant Professor - History of South Asia Job Description: “At Baruch College we believe that student success is eve...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🚨Tenure-track job🚨
Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
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out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.
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There a one-year Assistant Instructional Professor in Hindi position in my department at Chicago open, for a visiting role from Jan-December 2026. Tell your Hindi teaching friends!
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August 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There a one-year Assistant Instructional Professor in Hindi position in my department at Chicago open, for a visiting role from Jan-December 2026. Tell your Hindi teaching friends!
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68970/u...
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68970/u...
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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"more than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the overall Indus delta region in the last two decade"
Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinks
Salt crusts crackle underfoot as Habibullah Khatti walks to his mother's grave to say a final goodbye before he abandons his parched island village on Pakistan's Indus delta.
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August 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"more than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the overall Indus delta region in the last two decade"
I contributed a short essay to the new issue of ReOrient: Critical Muslim Studies, as part of a forum along with Abdulkader Tayob and Humeira Iqtidar responding to SherAli Tareen's book "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire".
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Corruption, Friendship, and Women’s Bodies
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August 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I contributed a short essay to the new issue of ReOrient: Critical Muslim Studies, as part of a forum along with Abdulkader Tayob and Humeira Iqtidar responding to SherAli Tareen's book "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire".
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
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July 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
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From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
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After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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Narendra Pachkhédé on C.M. Naim who "refused both the nostalgia of the diaspora and the sentimentality of cultural nationalism. His was a critical love – tender, exacting, and utterly unsentimental."
C. M. Naim and the Many Lives of Urdu
He stood, ultimately, for what might be called the aesthetics of ethical clarity. His writing was never merely beautiful, it was responsible.
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July 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Narendra Pachkhédé on C.M. Naim who "refused both the nostalgia of the diaspora and the sentimentality of cultural nationalism. His was a critical love – tender, exacting, and utterly unsentimental."
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Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
June 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit
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June 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians
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1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns.
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A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
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June 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
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My brilliant, beautiful friend Megha Sharma Sehdev left us all far too soon last week.
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Obituary: Megha Sharma Sehdev (1981-2023) | Anthropology
With immeasurable grief and regret we announce the untimely death of our beloved alumna Megha Sharma Sehdev who took her own life on August 17, 2023. Megha was born in Windsor, Ontario. She had a....
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August 28, 2023 at 8:05 PM
My brilliant, beautiful friend Megha Sharma Sehdev left us all far too soon last week.
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JOB ALERT: Georgetown Qatar is hiring open rank in South Asian history! GU-Q has such a vibrant Indian Ocean studies community. Open period, particularly interested in work related to environmental or gender history 🗃️ https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65694
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August 3, 2023 at 10:11 PM
JOB ALERT: Georgetown Qatar is hiring open rank in South Asian history! GU-Q has such a vibrant Indian Ocean studies community. Open period, particularly interested in work related to environmental or gender history 🗃️ https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65694
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4-position Cluster Hire in Asian Studies @umbc.bsky.social
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August 2, 2023 at 9:42 PM
4-position Cluster Hire in Asian Studies @umbc.bsky.social
https://cahss.umbc.edu/cluster-hire/?fbclid=IwAR3sqfSEDm1SGwGFJNrE-PvnzgL2WlvrgpWCYGR2x78ZRnarb2CgAj_48Oc
https://cahss.umbc.edu/cluster-hire/?fbclid=IwAR3sqfSEDm1SGwGFJNrE-PvnzgL2WlvrgpWCYGR2x78ZRnarb2CgAj_48Oc
Ok I’m here I guess. Thanks @sepoy.bsky.social for the secret password to this place
July 31, 2023 at 5:28 AM
Ok I’m here I guess. Thanks @sepoy.bsky.social for the secret password to this place