Independent journalist Madiha Tahir will screen and discuss her film on Pakistani survivors of U.S. drone attacks.Independent journalist Madiha Tahir will screen and discuss her film on Pakistani survivors of U.S. drone attacks.
"Wounds of Waziristan: Ethnography of a Kill Zone"
TUESDAY, NOV. 11
7 - 9 p.m.
CLARK LOUNGE, EGBERT HALL
*Free and open to the public*
Since the drone attacks began in Pakistan in 2004, much of the focus by analysts and academics has been on aspects of drone technology. Tahir’s documentary, “Wounds of Waziristan,” considers the voices of those who experience such attacks firsthand, who have been either labeled de facto as “combat militants” or summarily dismissed as “collateral damage.”
The program will be introduced by Asma Barlas, professor of politics and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE). The screening will be followed by an open question-and-answer session and comments from novelist Sorayya Khan, author of “Noor” and “Five Queens Road.”
Tahir has traveled extensively throughout Pakistan to report on such topics as nationalism and religion, Islamist organizations and national electoral politics. Her work has appeared in outlets ranging from Al Jazeera and Foreign Affairs to the Wall Street Journal and Columbia Journalism Review. She is the editor of a volume of essays, “Dispatches from Pakistan,” and was a founding editor of Tanqeed, a magazine of politics and culture.
The event is part of the 2014–15 CSCRE Discussion Series, “TECH N' COLOR: Technology, Racism, Resistance,” which considers how technology mediates, disrupts or reinvents expressions of race, racism and resistance.
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