Light in the Citadel
To understand Shahre No, one must learn how to look. Golestan offers a slow, patient gaze that turns each portrait into an act of remembrance.
The Green Illusion: How Sustainability Masks Empire
Europe calls it recycling; Africa calls it residue.
Beneath the language of “sustainability,” the fashion industry hides an old pattern of extraction where the global South bears the weight of the North’s conscience. This is what the circular economy looks like when the loop is colonial.
The politics of measurements
Nine thousand looks, one number on repeat: 97.1%. Fashion counts bodies and calls it progress, but what do these decimals really measure?
What the Record Didn’t Play
Some revolutions had soundtracks. Others were silenced before the first note began. In Congo’s struggle for independence, jazz became both a language of freedom and a tool of empire. This is the story of music, memory, and a woman history tried to mute but couldn’t.