Episode 183 - Community Chat with Tanvir Ahmed

Update: 2025-11-14

Description

This week, Jenna, Nick, Shingai and Sameem interview Tanvir Ahmed!

Please see the addendum below from Tanvir.

Addendum from Tanvir Ahmed: This conversation was recorded in September 2025, and in it, I mentioned that Afghanistan was not presently being bombed. Between then and now, Pakistan bombed Afghanistan and killed dozens from the air, including journalists, cricket players, and children. Pakistan's escalation plans have been broadcast for some time now, as reported in February 2025. The article under discussion in Strange Horizons was about the way Muslims are racialized into monsters, with specific reference to Afghans. That same process is still at work in the ongoing ethnic cleansings of Afghans in Pakistan and Iran.

Links mentioned during the show:

Brown University's Costs of War Project

The Taawon Project for Palestine

Lynzy Billing, America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up

Lynzy Billing, The Night Doctrine (and you can read the original investigation here)

Beshara Doumani & Gabi Kirk, Inheriting the Impossible

Vajra Chandrasekera's acceptance speech upon winning the 2025 Ursula K. LeGuin prize

An interview with Indra Das at Seize the Press with comments on the genocide in Palestine

Strange Horizons, Palestine Special Issue (29 March 2021)

Samovar, stories from and an interview with Abdul wakil Sulamal

Tanvir Ahmed, A Letter Dispatched from the Hills of Afghulistan and the Ramparts of Tarouz (and you can find a fuller list of works here)

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