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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - A Hunger Strike In ICE Detention - The New Yorker - A Hunger Strike in ICE Detention</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: In July, Kumar went on a hunger strike to protest his indefinite detention and looming deportation. “I decided if I am going to die, I’ll die here,” he told me. When the officers at Otero saw that Kumar had stopped eating and drinking, they sent him to solitary. A few days later, he could hear the officers putting others in shu rooms near his. He couldn’t see or talk to them and only later learned that five other Indian men had also gone on hunger strike. He did not know what had sparked their protest, though the Otero staff considered him their ringleader, nonetheless. “I had one demand from the beginning,” he told me. “I just want my freedom. I didn’t ask for anything else.” Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/forty-thousand-syrian-refugees-remain-trapped</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - Forty Thousand Syrian Refugees Remain Trapped - The New Yorker - Forty Thousand Refugees Remain Trapped in a US-created No Man’s Land</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Rukban lies in a thirty-five-mile-wide internationally-recognized demilitarized zone created by the United States and Russia, though neither Washington nor Moscow takes responsibility for it. It is populated by Syrians who fled the violence of both the Bashar al-Assad regime and isis, and, until the recent delivery, the Syrian government had refused to allow aid convoys to pass through its territory to reach the camp. Jordan has blocked humanitarian organizations from reaching the area, too. Aid organizations “always tell us, ‘We are doing our best,’ ” Mahmoud Qassem Almaili, a resident of the camp who serves on its civil council, told me over the phone recently. “But it’s all only promises.” Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/new-york-citys-forgotten-muslim-past</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - New York City's Forgotten Muslim Past - The New Yorker - New York City’s Forgotten Muslim Past</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Back when Donald Trump was a Presidential candidate, he said, “I think Islam hates us,” and called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The realities of office reined him in somewhat, and in January of 2017 he signed an order to block the entry of people from only select Muslim-majority countries. (The Supreme Court upheld the policy last month.) What bothers Katherine Merriman, a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is that Trump misses the fact that Islam is already part of America’s history. For the past four years, Merriman has been giving Muslim-history tours of Trump’s home town, focussing on Harlem. “There are roughly three hundred mosques in New York City,” she said the other day. “New York is one of the most, if not the most, diverse Muslim cities in the world. There is no such thing as a ‘Muslim world’ somewhere else.” Full article.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - It's Raining Rockets - The New Yorker - “It’s Raining Rockets”: Deadly New Syrian-Russian Assault Kills Hundreds in Eastern Ghouta</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: In the last two weeks, one thousand and forty-two people, including about a hundred and fifty-six children, have been killed in eastern Ghouta, in what human-rights groups fear is a final, all-out offensive to retake one of the few remaining rebel-held enclaves in the country. Bombings by Syrian and Russian planes have been indiscriminate, killing civilians, levelling homes, and destroying medical facilities. Bashar al-Assad’s regime—with the full support of Vladimir Putin and the Russian military—have flouted calls for a complete ceasefire. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/ice-shows-its-new-power</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - ICE Shows Its New Power - The New Yorker - In Arresting an Immigrants-Rights Activist, ICE Shows its New Power</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: On Thursday, after officials in the New York City offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed him that he was going to be deported, the immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir fainted. An ambulance was called to take Ragbir and his wife, Amy Gottlieb, who had accompanied him to ice’s offices, to New York-Presbyterian Hospital. When they arrived at the hospital, Gottlieb was asked to get out—to make room, she thought, for her husband to be wheeled out on a stretcher. But she was then surrounded by ice agents, and watched as the ambulance sped away. The agents said that they would soon let her know her husband’s whereabouts. A full day passed before she got a call from Ragbir himself. He was at a detention center in Miami. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/the-bodega-strike-against-trumps-executive-order-on-immigration</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - The Bodega Strike Against Trump's Executive Order on Immigration - The New Yorker - The Bodega Strike Against Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: On Thursday, thousands of Yemeni-Americans turned out at a rally in Brooklyn, outside Borough Hall, to protest President Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban. Seemingly every person in the crowd had a story to tell about how the ban affected him or her personally, and every story was one of separation. Full article.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Reporting - Will the Victory at Standing Rock Outlast Obama? - The New Yorker - Will the Victory at Standing Rock Outlast Obama?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Who decides what policies benefit Native Americans? For the Standing Rock Sioux, that issue—not energy infrastructure but the flawed process of consultation between the tribe, the Army Corps of Engineers, and E.T.P. that caused the impasse in the first place—was at the crux of their protest. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/a-muslim-woman-also-got-elected-last-week-the-new-yorker</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - A Muslim Woman Also Got Elected Last Week - The New Yorker - A Muslim Woman Also Got Elected Last Week</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: At the same time Donald Trump was watching the Presidential-election returns from Trump Tower, in New York, Ilhan Omar was in the Courtyard Marriott in Minneapolis, watching the returns and learning that she had also been elected, as a Minnesota House Representative for the city’s 60B District. Like Trump, Omar represented a change. Like Trump, Omar won on a platform promising to serve a community whose needs had been forgotten. But Omar represents many of the things that Trump has belittled: she’s a Muslim, an immigrant, a woman. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - Hindus for Trump - The New Yorker - Hindus for Trump</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Donald Trump’s best Indian-American friend is a sixty-seven-year-old billionaire from Chicago named Shalabh Kumar. One recent Saturday, the candidate accepted Kumar’s invitation to speak at a fund-raiser in New Jersey, organized by the Republican Hindu Coalition, a group that Kumar founded last year, with the blessing of Newt Gingrich. In 2013, Kumar took American congressmen to India to meet Narendra Modi (now the Prime Minister), a Hindu nationalist, who, at the time, had been banned from the United States, owing to allegations that he’d played a role in the killing of hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat. Kumar donated almost a million dollars to Trump’s campaign, after the two bonded over Modi’s leadership and the threat of Islamic terrorism. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - A Crisis for Minorities in Pakistan - The New Yorker - A Crisis for Minorities in Pakistan</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Sunday’s bombing, which was big, public, and in reality indiscriminate, came as a shock to the city. It reflected terrorism’s alarming spread from the mountains of Northwest Pakistan and the chaos of Karachi into the heart of Punjab province, where Lahore—a city of history and poetry, fashion and music, famed foods and delicate gardens—is located. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - Marijuana Comes to Coalinga - The Nation - Marijuana Comes to Coalinga</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Coalinga’s lifeblood is represented by the barbed-wire-enclosed structures on either end of town. As with other places that form part of the Central Valley’s “prison alley,” a pair of penitentiaries—Pleasant Valley State Prison and Claremont Custody Center—had brought more than a thousand jobs and lucrative revenue to Coalinga. But, also like many small towns, Coalinga is struggling.  Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/what-rashida-tlaib-represents</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - What Rashida Tlaib Represents - What Rashida Tlaib Represents</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: “Tlaib’s arrival on the national stage has also coincided with an opening, albeit a small one, within the Democratic Party to challenge the United States’ Israel policy. The Palestinian cause has become a significant part of the politics of the American left at the same time that the left has gained a legible footing on the national stage.” Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/poet-laureate-of-nowhere</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-11-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - Poet Laureate of Nowhere - Poet Laureate of Nowhere</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: “At 38, Sharif has a clear-eyed sense of the discomfort she wants to explore, and an equally clear-eyed sense of the things she disdains. Among them: Poets whose ethics she doesn’t agree with (she refused to name names); metaphors (her editor Jeff Shotts told me she scoured the final manuscript of Look to make sure there weren’t any); and empathy.” Full article. Image courtesy of Cassidy Araiza of Lux Magazine.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/afghan-baby-adoption</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-11-23</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/the-afghan-women-left-behind</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-11-23</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/heraldsquare</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - The 'Herald Square Bomber' Who Wasn't - New York Times Magazine - The ‘Herald Square Bomber’ Who Wasn’t</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: “Siraj, at 21, had a hulking build and a tendency to ramble when he spoke. He usually lingered around the store with friends from the neighborhood, talking about Islam and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had difficulty grasping new ideas and would need them explained multiple times, but in front of his friends, he pretended to know more than he did.” Full article. Photo courtesy of Taryn Simon for The New York Times</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/work/essentialbusiness</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Reporting - Essential Business: Keeping the Bronx fed in the midst of a pandemic - Harper's Magazine - Essential Business Keeping the Bronx fed in the midst of a pandemic</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Like all diseases, COVID-19 feeds on penury, and in the Bronx—which has been hit twice as hard as Manhattan—nearly one in three people lives below the poverty line. The South Bronx in particular forms part of the poorest congressional district in America. The average life expectancy here is ten years shorter than it is in Greenwich Village. Diabetes and hypertension rates soar above the city average. A curtain of smog rings the neighborhood—a product of three nearby highways, a massive garbage facility, a Wall Street Journal printing plant, a Fresh Direct warehouse, and the trucks that stream in and out of Hunts Point, the supply center for much of the city’s restaurants. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-07-25</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/nathan-thrall-review</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-03-20</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/rewriting-the-story-of-the-palestinian-radical</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - Rewriting the Story of the Palestinian Radical - The New Yorker - Rewriting the Story of the Palestinian Radical</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: We’re led to believe, as soon as we’re introduced to Nahr, in prison, that something radicalized her. But which factor—her childhood; her abuse; her propensity for risks; her love for Bilal, who takes up violence for his cause; or Palestine itself—most explains this turn? In real life, it has become popular to morally evaluate people based on who they are, not what they do—immigrants are dangerous, Muslims are extremists, and so on. In tracing Nahr’s journey, Abulhawa challenges that assumption, upending our image of the Palestinian radical. She knows that people are transformed by the world around them, and that fiction, when it works, helps us understand how that transformation takes root. Full article Illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban; Source photographs from Getty</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/the-isis-beat</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - The ISIS Beat - The Drift - The ISIS Beat: Why Caliphate and Everyone Else Got it Wrong Excerpt: In March 2019, I arrived in eastern Syria to witness the demise of the Islamic State. The movement had been largely defeated, having surrendered major cities like Raqqa and Mosul. All that was left of the Caliphate, which had gripped our collective fears for the past six years, were a few square miles of desert along the Iraqi–Syrian border. The towns here appeared to be deserted. Car doors were left wide open, and clothes were still hanging on lines. Minarets and domes were etched with bullet holes. Concrete foundations of razed houses jutted out from the ground. Full article.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/the-iraq-war-paved-the-way-for-the-coronavirus-crisis</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - The Iraq War Paved the Way for the Coronavirus Crisis - Foreign Affairs - The Iraq War Paved the Way for Coronavirus Catastrophe</image:title>
      <image:caption>Decades of war have wrecked the country’s health infrastructure and made it particularly vulnerable to the disease. Two years after the defeat of the Islamic State, 1.5 million people are still internally displaced, without regular access to basic sanitation, let alone health care. Most workers make a living in the informal sector, meaning that they now face a stark choice: continue working and risk infection or stop and risk starvation. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/what-a-novel-can-say-about-the-egyptian-revolution</loc>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - What a Novel Can Say About the Egyptian Revolution - The New Yorker - What a Novel Can Say About the Egyptian Revolution</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: In 2016, five years after the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian government decided to alter public mentions of the 2011 revolution. It omitted names of activists from grade-school textbooks, and downplayed the mass protests in some high-school texts. “It’s like the revolution didn’t happen,” Kamal Mougheeth, a researcher at Egypt’s National Council for Education, told the Washington Post at the time. Last month, the Ministry of Education announced it would strike mentions of the uprisings in January, 2011, and June, 2013, from history textbooks for the upcoming academic term. It turned out that an exam question this past year had been too controversial: “How would things be if al-Sisi had never given the June 30th speech?” Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/the-erasure-of-islam-from-the-poetry-of-rumi-the-new-yorker</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi - The New Yorker - The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Rumi is often described as the best-selling poet in the United States. He is typically referred to as a mystic, a saint, a Sufi, an enlightened man. Curiously, however, although he was a lifelong scholar of the Koran and Islam, he is less frequently described as a Muslim. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/a-troubling-culture-war-between-india-and-pakistan-the-new-yorker</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - A Troubling Culture War Between India and Pakistan - The New Yorker - A Troubling Culture War Between India and Pakistan</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: This past weekend, the Bollywood production company Fox Star Studios released a long-awaited film, “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil,” by Karan Johar, one of India’s leading directors. Johar has made some of Bollywood’s highest-grossing blockbusters, but less than two weeks ago he was pleading with people to watch his new movie. “Over three hundred people in my crew have put their blood, sweat, and tears into my film,” he said in a video statement, clad in black against a black backdrop. Then Johar promised not to work with talent from India’s neighbor, Pakistan, anymore. “I salute the Indian Army,” he reassured his audience. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/a-powerful-documentary-about-pakistans-honor-killings-the-new-yorker</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - A Powerful Documentary About Pakistan's Honor Killings - The New Yorker - A Powerful Documentary About Pakistan’s Honor Killings</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: In their version of events, they would beat Saba Qaiser, shoot her in the head, stuff her in a bag, and drop her body into the river. Her father and uncle would do this in the middle of the night, when no one was watching, and no one would know what happened to her. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/how-homeland-helps-justify-the-war-on-terror-the-new-yorker</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c66e555795412260af87d3/1624940401129-AUW6PLAHAUZ3ZM26WTXT/Rozina-Ali-How-Homeland-Helps-Justify-War-on-Terror.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - How "Homeland" Helps Justify the War on Terror - The New Yorker - How “Homeland” Helps Justify the War on Terror</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: The show insists on an image of Muslim countries as homogeneous—loud, crowded, and aggressive—and of Muslims as overwhelmingly sadistic, barbaric, and morally bankrupt. Full article.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/stromae-in-new-york-the-new-yorker</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - Stromae in New York - The New Yorker - Stromae in New York</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Years later, in 2013, the Belgian singer Stromae performed a similar stunt. On a rainy day in May, he stumbled out of a Métro station in Brussels. His spindly figure was all the more noticeable as he tripped through the surrounding streets, seemingly drunk and singing his breakup song “Formidable.” As passersby rushed to beat the rain, some stopped to observe the pop star as he wavered on the streets. A few people pulled out their cell phones to record the spectacle in front of them. The entire scene was a production. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/its-time-for-the-democratic-candidates-to-talk-about-the-muslim-ban-the-american-prospect</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-07-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/the-kashmiri-narrative-columbia-journalism-review</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - The Kashmiri Narrative - Columbia Journalism Review - The Kashmiri Narrative</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: For many Kashmiris, the media’s persistent focus on the India-Pakistan binary misses a key part of the story: free will. Full article.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/intersecting-catastrophes-los-angeles-review-of-books</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - Intersecting Catastrophes - Los Angeles Review of Books - Intersecting Catastrophes</image:title>
      <image:caption>Excerpt: Today, Karachi is patrolled by army rangers trying to clamp down on terrorist and gang activity (and violating human rights along the way); it’s run by mafia groups with parallel law systems; its traffic can be debilitating; its basic services, like electricity and trash collection, are strained under the swelling population. What fateful and failed turns — Partition, identity politics, military interventions — can explain the city’s, and thus the country’s, demise? Full article.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essays and Reviews - Intersecting Catastrophes - Los Angeles Review of Books - Make it stand out.</image:title>
      <image:caption>It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.rozina-ali.com/essays-and-reviews/lawful-carnage</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-07-25</lastmod>
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