Articles and Essays
TENET: The World in the Service of a Few International Elite
(Article in Politics Today, September 20, 2021)
Notturno: A Dark Purgatorial World in the Fertile Crescent
(Article in Politics Today, August 19, 2021)
Slavery and Colonialism Go Deeper than Toppling Statues
(Article in Politics Today, June 22, 2020)
Coronavirus and the Shift Towards a New Cinema
(Article in Politics Today, June 13, 2020)
Faith, Society, Politics: How the Coronavirus is Changing the World
(Article in Politics Today, June 5, 2020)
Communal India: Past, Present and Future
(Article in Politics Today, March 7, 2020)
Contemporary Islamic Art and the Jameel Prize 2018
(Article in Politics Today, September 18, 2018)
The Jameel Prize in Istanbul
(Article in Politics Today, August 10, 2016)
Turkey 2016: Black Dogs and a Vanquished Coup
(Article in Politics Today, July 28, 2016)
30 Words for 30 Days of Ramadan
(Article in Politics Today, July 1, 2016)
Istanbul and Contemporary Islamic Art
(Article in Politics Today, April 25th, 2016)
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Utopian Landscapes
(Essay in Directions Screening #3 Program, February 20, 2020)
The Weaver of Details: An Interview with Reza Mirkarimi
(Interview in Projectorhead Magazine, Issue No.11, June 2016)
Divine Ground
(Introduction in Exhibition Catalogue of Divine Ground at DCA, April 2016)
Argo, Orient Yourself!
(Review in Projectorhead Magazine, Issue No. 9, December 2013)
A Strange Voyeurism
(Catalogue Essay for DLN Reddy Exhibition at Focus Art Gallery, Dec. 2012)
Underground: Music as a Door through the Absurd World of Yugoslavian History
(Essay in Projectorhead Magazine, Issue No. 4, September 2011)
Dil Se… (Essay in Projectorhead Magazine, Issue No. 3, August 2011)
An Islamic Reading of Kiarostami’s Closeup
(Essay in muslimstan.net Journal, March 2006 and Projectorhead Magazine, Issue No. 1, April 2011)