On a Geocities webpage created in 2002 titled “The holly land……Palestine”, a collection of still images, animated gifs, and text coloured in shades of green, red, and white is overlaid on a black background. At the top of the page is a 3D graphic spelling out بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ in a stretched yellow font […]
Around 6 AM on a moderately hot, late May morning in Lahore, I am travelling to Badami Bagh Bus Stand in an Uber, and just after crossing the railway station, owing to some construction work going on the road, the driver has to stop and take an alternative route. The air is still and warm […]
Born in 9th-century Herat, Afghanistan, today, Khajistan lives on as an archive founded by Saad Khan. Khajistan saves art, words, and media from forgotten or silenced communities, stretching from the Indus to the Maghreb. Many of these communities have faced centuries of Islamic rule and scars of European colonialism. Khajistan believes that the absence of […]
