Doxa at Large
Iran, in Search of a Nonsecular and Nontheocratic Politics
The Iranian revolution of 1978–79 was the culmination of a gradual rejection of the shah’s domestic policies — including his authoritarian secularism — and of foreign, especially American, influence in Iran. Revolutionaries of different persuasions, who…Reconstructing Corrosion: A Conversation with Pallavi Govindnathan
Poornima Paidipaty, in Volume 22, Number 1
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Acid Violence against Women in Bangladesh
Standing at the entrance to the Social Initiatives Office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, waiting for an acid survivor to greet us, I felt overwhelming anxiety.Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the Terrorist Imaginary
In 1998 al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Muhammad became an apparition. In the years that followed, intelligence and media sources claimed that he was born in 1973, 1974, and 1975 and that he is Kenyan and Egyptian. He was presumed dead in Kandahar and…Remembering Benjamin from South of the Pyrenees: The Two-Gauge Problem
Walter Benjamin died on September 27, 1940, in the Hotel de Francia, in the Catalan border town of Port Bou. Like many other Europeans, Benjamin had been driven away from several homes in the 1930s: from Berlin to Paris, from Paris to southern France…