Jennifer Dubrow recently released an essay in Dawn as a cover story entitled “Faiz, India and Protest.” This piece highlights the role of Urdu poetry in the current protests against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, with a focus on the poem “Hum Dekhenge” by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a rallying cry in protests in India and abroad.

Shahla Haeri recently published her new book "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, and Gender." Shahla "offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political systems of their times."