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Farah Akbar is a freelance writer from Queens, New York.



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Who Should Teach South Asian Studies?

The department has proliferated at U.S. universities. But the discipline’s professors aren’t always who you think.

Farah Akbar

Farah Akbar

Tabu and Irrfan Khan with baby Gogol in The Namesake (2006)

The Disappearing Dak Nam

For many Bengalis, the naming tradition is a way to express cultural pride and intimacy. But for others, it might be on the way out.

Farah Akbar

Farah Akbar

Henry Kissinger with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on October 30, 1974 in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Michel LAURENT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

How Henry Kissinger Betrayed Bangladesh

The former U.S. Secretary of State fled Nazi Germany as a child. Decades later, he would condone the Pakistani genocide of millions of Bengalis.

Farah Akbar

Farah Akbar

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and Sheikh Hasina (L) in Dhaka on June 20, 1996. Abdus Samad Azad, Hasina's aide, at center (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

Bangladesh and Palestine: A History of Solidarity

For decades, the two have supported each other in displacement, war, and oppression.

Farah Akbar

Farah Akbar



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