I recently read a chapter from Arthur Asseraf’s Electric News in Colonial Algeria (2019). The chapter, entitled “Arab Telephone,” covers the intimate relationship between colonization, the expansion of the telegraph in Algeria, and resistance. Asseraf analyzes the growth of a global pan-Islamist movement through these colonial technologies. As the telegraph spread with colonial expansion, so… Continue reading Going South
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The Space Between
In February 2021 I attended a conversation between Felwine Sarr, a musician, economist and scholar, and Thierry Grillet. The talk was hosted by Columbia Global Centers Paris. Some of Grillet’s questions included: “Where are the places of healing? Where do we digest colonial histories?” These questions, in some sense rhetorical, ask us where—they ask us… Continue reading The Space Between
