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China Weaponizes Education to Control Tibet0
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- October 16, 2019
By Ben Halder 16 October 2019 China has ramped up its efforts to get Tibetan children to study at state-run boarding schools outside the province.Source Kevin Frayer/Getty Why you should care Because China is undercutting Tibetan monastery education in a bid to control the future. In April 2019, China Global Television Network (CGTN) published a
READ MOREThe Walls Close in on Modi as India’s Bureaucrats Quit in Protest0
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- October 14, 2019
By Pallabi Munsi 13 October 2019 Why you should care The unprecedented wave of resignations in the U.S. State Department under Donald Trump is now spreading to the bureaucracy in Modi’s India. Just last year, Kannan Gopinathan was the toast of India’s civil services, after his efforts at rebuilding a broken dam in the flood-ravaged state
READ MOREA Year After Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia Appears Untouched0
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- September 30, 2019
By OZY Editors 30 September 2019 Why you should care President Donald Trump embraced Saudi Arabia’s leader despite suspicions that he ordered a journalist’s horrific murder. This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story
READ MOREThe Taliban’s Hidden Moderate0
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- September 27, 2019
By Pallabi Munsi 27 September 2019 Why you should care Because he’s central to any potential Afghan peace deal.After the Longest War: What’s next in Afghanistan?After the Longest War: What’s next in Afghanistan? Outside Moscow’s President Hotel in February, the deputy political head of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi Ali Mardan Qul, voiced his
READ MOREWhy India and Kashmir Are Headed Back to the 1990s0
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- September 27, 2019
By Maroosha Muzaffar 27 September 2019 Why you should care Because 7 million Kashmiris still have no mobile or internet connectivity. A friend and fellow Kashmiri journalist visited our home region from Delhi last week, after going almost 20 days without speaking to his parents. Ever since the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
READ MORETrump’s Test as India and Pakistan Clash Over Kashmir Again0
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- August 21, 2019
By John McLaughlin 21 August 2019 Source Composite Sean Culligan/OZY, Image Getty Why you should care Tensions are high on the nuclear-armed subcontinent, where international intervention has worked in the past. But will it in the Trump era? When the latest India-Pakistan flare-up arose over disputed Kashmir, my mind went back to Christmas Eve, 2001.
READ MOREINSIDE THE EXODUS OF INDIAN MIGRANTS FROM KASHMIR0
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- August 9, 2019
By Yashraj Sharma WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Modi’s government says the abrogation of Kashmir’s special status will better integrate it with India, but Indians are leaving in droves. It’s 8 pm and the streets of Srinagar — the capital of Indian Kashmir — are desolate, with one of the strictest curfews the region has seen. But
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THE MAN DRIVING MODI’S KASHMIR POWER GRAB0
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- August 8, 2019
By Sanjay Kapoor 8 August 2019 WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Amit Shah, India’s home minister and protégé to the PM, has a reputation for ruthlessness. Noise and bedlam come easy for India’s Parliament, but on Monday it reached a new level. Opposition parliamentarians were angry over the bizarre manner in which the central government had shut
READ MOREKashmir has changed forever, and tens of thousands of Kashmiris away from home can’t even check on their loved ones.0
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- August 7, 2019
Just Let Me Speak to My Family – True Story By Maroosha Muzaffar 7 August 2019 OZY Why you should care For many Kashmiris, democracy in the “world’s largest democracy” just died. When I texted my brother just past midnight on Sunday, I implored him not to go to work in the morning. It wasn’t
READ MOREREFUGEE RIPPLE EFFECT: THE ‘SEND THEM BACK’ STRATEGY IS SPREADING0
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- August 5, 2019
By Mat Nashed 5 August 2019 OZY WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Nations are increasingly violating international law and returning refugees to war zones. The border crisis isn’t only about the West. This OZY original series captures how migration is reshaping many societies. “I’m not fine at all. I’m dying in Libya.” Muhammad Hafees sent me the message from a Libyan
READ MOREThe Rise of a Moderate (and Persecuted) Islamic Caliphate0
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- July 30, 2019
By Sophia Akram 30 July Why you should care The Ahmadiyya movement is growing faster than any other strand of Islam. Half a mile from South London’s busy Morden station is the vast complex of Baitul Futuh Mosque, the largest Islamic place of worship in Europe. But the $19 million in donations that went into
READ MOREThis Feminist Urdu Writer Wasn’t Afraid to Talk About Sex0
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- July 23, 2019
By Maroosha Muzaffar 23 July 2019 Chughtai convinced her parents that she needed to attend university — and attend she did, becoming the first Indian Muslim woman to earn both a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Education. Why you should care A writer who was considered a bad influence on Muslim youth
READ MOREIndia: WHY THOUSANDS OF SIKH MEN DISAPPEARED AT THE HANDS OF POLICE0
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- July 10, 2019
By Sonia Sarkar 10 July 2019 WHY YOU SHOULD CARE A crackdown saw a generation of young men go missing at the hands of Indian security forces. The January night was dark and dull. Sitting on a charpoy bed, 21-year-old Harjinder Singh Rana was playing his one-string tumbi, a traditional instrument, and singing, “Nanak dukhiya sab sansar.” Lord,
READ MOREAfghanistan’s Stunning New Success Story: Sports2
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- June 24, 2019
By Maroosha Muzaffar 24 June 2019 Why you should care Because sports are helping this country change its narrative. It was only a practice match. But when Afghanistan beat Pakistan in May ahead of the currently ongoing men’s Cricket World Cup in the U.K., fans back home hit the streets with celebratory firecrackers and gunshots.
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