ROZINA ALI
Recent Highlights
Lawful Carnage
Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism. By Rozina Ali for The American Prospect.
The ISIS Beat: Why Caliphate and Everyone Else Got It Wrong
We owe the countries we’ve invaded and bombed more than such a narrow lens of the world, a lens we’ve created. By Type Fellow Rozina Ali for The Drift.
The ‘Herald Square Bomber’ Who Wasn’t
After 9/11, U.S. authorities used informants to secure hundreds of terror convictions. But did they help create plots where none existed?
By By Type Fellow Rozina Ali for The New York Times Magazine.
Rewriting the Story of the Palestinian Radical
In “Against the Loveless World,” Susan Abulhawa presents a tale that has less to do with ideology than with the way love binds us to land. By Type Fellow Rozina Ali for The New Yorker.
Essential Business
Keeping the Bronx fed in the midst of a pandemic
By Rozina Ali in Harper’s.
The Iraq War Paved the Way for Coronavirus Catastrophe
In early April, a video of an elderly woman in what looks to be a makeshift isolation ward in Iraq circulated widely on WhatsApp.
By Rozina Ali in Foreign Affairs.
A Hunger Strike in ICE Detention
Ajay Kumar, an asylum seeker from India, went on a hunger strike to protest the “animal-like treatment” he faced in ice custody.
By Rozina Ali in The New Yorker.
It’s Time for the Democratic Candidates to Talk About the Muslim Ban
Trump’s policy is no longer in the spotlight, but the ban on visitors from Muslim-majority countries is still separating American families.
By Rozina Ali in The American Prospect.
The Kashmiri Narrative
For many Kashmiris, the media’s persistent focus on the India-Pakistan binary misses a key part of the story.
By Rozina Ali in the Columbia Journalism Review.
Forty Thousand Syrian Refugees Remain Trapped In A U.S.-Created No Man’s Land
The United Nations, ostensibly the only international organization that can provide aid to people in Rukban, is beholden to states that have little incentive to help the people living there.
By Rozina Ali in the New Yorker.