Toiba Naseema

Jan 22, 2024 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema

Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A Kashmiri poet-anthropologist records the restless despair many feel under Indian occupation. If you missed the introduction to “Earlier I Had Nightmares, Now I Have Insomnia,” you can find it here.

Jan 16, 2024 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema |Christine Weeber |Sarah Lacy |Cara Ocobock

SAPIENS’ 2023 poet-in-residence questions where peace of mind can come from for Indian-occupied Kashmir. If you missed the introduction to “A Long Road Ahead,” you can find it here.

Jan 8, 2024 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema |Christine Weeber |Hannah Borenstein |Benjamin Hollenbach

“Speak up for your lips are not sealed,and your words are still your own. This upright body is yours,speak while your soul is still your own.”—, Pakistani poet ✽The Valley of Kashmir, cradled in a mountainous Himalayan region, has been shaped by centuries of foreign rule. This place I live in and write from sits occupied and divided between India, Pakistan, and China, a legacy of Britain’s Partition of South Asia.

Jan 8, 2024 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema

Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A poet-anthropologist conveys her life when she was coming of age under the increasing mobilization of military forces in Indian-occupied Kashmir. If you missed the introduction to “This Militarization,” you can find it here.

May 22, 2023 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema |Sophie Muro |Michelle Langley |Nicholas C. Laluk

“When I See Spring in Your Eyes” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Means to Be Human. Read the introduction to the collection here.