Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Jan 17, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia—refers to the Akkadian name of the city, Bab-ilim, meaning “gate of God.” Ilim, in Arabic, also connotes knowledge, the opposite state denoted by Babel’s homophone, “babble”—that signals excessive, excited, confused, foolish chatter.

Nov 13, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Fawzia Afzal-Khan

On the 7th of November 202, The Jewish Link published a piece entitled "Montclair State Students Grapple With Weekly Anti-Israel Protests,” written by one of its regular authors, Debra Rubin. It is poorly written, but full of lies and innuendo against a small group of faculty and students at MSU who have been repeatedly harassed and intimidated by MSU authorities for daring to mount silent protests since the AY resumed in September.

Jul 20, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Fawzia Afzal-Khan

In this essay, I will describe my activism on behalf of Palestinians' human rights and their right to self-determination, from my graduate student days on a US campus, to the present in my position as a tenured full professor, and the ways in which I’ve experienced attempts at silencing and censorship.

Jul 19, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Fawzia Afzal-Khan

In this essay, I will describe my activism on behalf of Palestinians’ human rights and their right to self-determination, from my graduate student days on a US campus, to the present in my position as a tenured full professor, and the ways in which I’ve experienced attempts at silencing and censorship.

Jul 12, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Muhammad Toheed |Ishtiaq Ahmed |Fawzia Afzal-Khan |Raza Rumi

The book under review is a biography of actor Shyam (born Sialkot 20 February 1920 died Bombay 25 April 1951) who died when he was shooting for the film Shabistan (1951). He had almost finished riding the horse during shooting when the stirrup broke, he lost balance and fell off the horse. He received fatal head injuries and died. He was only 31. Shyam was an enlightened, broadminded individual who read a lot of English and Urdu literature. Saadat Hasan Manto was one of his closest friends.