Sept. 11 Commemorative Issue

Posted on by

Select pieces from each issue are available for registered users. Members can access AALR’s full archive.

Table of Contents

DVD: Spoken Word Video Shorts

Bao Phi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Amir Rabiyah, Pushkar Sharma, Anida Yoeu Ali, Chee Malabar, Bushra Rehman, and Giles Li

 

Introduction

Rajini Srikanth

 

Section 1: Witness and Grieving

Sonny Singh

  • testimony

Anouska Cheddie

  • testimony

Samina Najmi

  • Teaching as a Pakistani American Muslim Feminist

Shahara Ahmed, Tauseef Kazi, and Unais Ibrahim

  • testimony

Kazim Ali

Varun Sriram

  • My Airport Story

Siddharth Shah

  • Terrorized Nervous Systems and Islamophobic Backlash: The Case for Neurobiological and Psychosocial Countermeasures

Rishi Reddi

  • On Being South Asian Post 9/11

Forum: On 9/11 as “Rupture”

  • Mary Husain, Rakhshanda Saleem, Sunaina Maira, and Veena Dubal

Sudha Acharya

  • testimony

Theresa Thanjan

  • testimony

Elizabeth OuYang

  • testimony

DJ Rekha

  • postcard & testimony

Anant Raut

  • I Guess You Had to Be There

Vijay Prashad

  • Dear Uncle Swami

 

Visuals

  • from Visible Collective

 

Section 2: New Formations, New Alignments

Adem Carroll

  • testimony

Tito Sinha and Chaumtoli Huq

  • Laying the Groundwork for-Post 9/11 Alliances: Reflections Ten Years Later on Desis Organizing 2001

Zohra Saed

  • testimony

Pico Iyer

  • Ten Years On

Angie Chuang

Pawan Dhingra

  • Post-9/11 Vacancies: Race, Economics, and Indian American Motel Owners

Forum: On the Desi America-Asian America Split and New Alignments Between South Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim Americans

  • Deepa Iyer, Gary Okihiro, Jack Tchen, Sunita S. Mukhi, Jennifer Hayashida, Abla Harara, Nadia Firozvi, and Robert Ku

Tram Nguyen

  • On Suspects and Belonging: Post-9/11 America

Khin Mai Aung

  • testimony

Magid Shihade

  • On 9/11 and the War on “Terror”: Names, Numbers, and Events

Elora Chowdhury

  • Unsuspecting Connections: Reflections on Teaching “Becoming South Asian” to Non-South Asians in Post-9/11 America

Vasudha Desikan

  • testimony

Saru Jayaraman

  • testimony

The Long View: An Interview

  • Subhash Shetty Kateel by Parag Khandhar

 

  Visuals

  •  Tomie Arai

 

Section 3: We Live in Echo

Dinu Ahmed and Moumita Zaman

  • A Dialogue on Khadijah’s Caravan

Mazen Naous

  • Why Arab American Fiction Matters

Forum: On Literature Post 9/11

  • Amitava Kumar, Harold Jaffe, Anis Shivani, and Shailja Patel

Zohra Saed

  • testimony

Ronak Kapadia, Prerana Reddy, Naeem Mohaiemen, Vivek Bald, Aimara Lin, Uzma Z. Rizvi, and Aziz Huq

  • Collectives in Post-2001 New York: A Conversation with Visible Collective

Madhulika Khandelwal

  • testimony

Purvi Shah, Hossannah Asuncion, Tamiko Beyer, April Heck, R.A. Villanueva, and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai

  • A Public Art, A Re-membered Poetry, A Community Constellation: A Dialogue on the Kundiman Project Together We Are New York

Shahid Buttar and Dan S. Wang

  • testimony

Sunu Chandy

  • testimony

 

Visuals

  • Khadijah’s Caravan

 

Afterword

Parag Khandhar

 

Contributors’ Notes

Leave a Reply