Middle East

  • The Forgetting of Being: Ibtisam Azem and the Lived World of Palestine

    In his seminal non-fiction The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera highlights Edmund Husserl’s expounding of ‘Crisis of European Humanity’, holding that it was for the first time in Human History that people apprehended the world as a “whole”. To Husserl, a distinguished philosopher and founder of the school of phenomenology, the advent of the…

  • Surveillance, Cybersecurity, and Human Rights: Navigating Privacy in the Digital Age

    Globalisation is well-rooted in the contemporary world order and has touched every aspect of human life. The present system is highly dependent on technologies that make it possible to connect across the globe. However, every comfort comes with certain disadvantages, and the adverse outcome of growing digitalisation, which is the very core of the present…

  • Muffled Stories: How the Absence of Northeast Indian Literature Fuels the ‘Othering’

    If you have grown up in mainland India, chances are the first images that come to your mind when someone says “Northeast” are scenic hills, Momo, and maybe a news headline about a protest, inter-community conflicts or perhaps a border clash with the neighbouring countries. The missing pictures here are the everyday lives, the tea…

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