Are current conversations on racism achieving anything?
It is difficult not to feel that the reaction to George Floyd’s murder has been about cosmetics. We have been treated to woke capitalism as corporations gorged themselves on a…
Tag: Politics
For me, India’s authentic history is best captured by its literature
Framed by a socalled “Western” lens, India is often viewed as an exotic, faraway place – an image reinforced in Western classrooms, which rarely venture into discourse about Indian history…
Are criticisms of the race inequality commission’s Munira Mirza valid?
A storm of anger at racial inequality and injustice might have gripped America, but no-one from the British government could say that they haven’t felt some of it too. One…
One month of MESA
MESA Magazine launched just over one month ago, around the same time that we saw the Coronavirus outbreak take full effect. On a small, yet more positive note, this month…
MESA Reviews: Haifaa Al Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate
Like most of us living in the west, I could only really imagine what day-to-day life for a Saudi Arabian woman is like. Unless you’re going off personal experiences or…
India’s treatment of Muslims runs parallel to Islamophobia in Myanmar
A season of brutal anti-Muslim violence has erupted in India. Shocking scenes of mob-inspired street carnage, police brutality and vandalism have swept through the largest democracy. The scale of the…
Italian-Syrian designer Efrem Damiani on fashion brand Efetishism
What happens when you combine fetishism, gender neutrality, sex, and even more sex? You get Efetishism, a fashion brand which stands out for its raunchy and raw aesthetics, tantalisingly provocative…
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