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Tanvir Ahmed

@tanawir.bsky.social

THE NIGHT SWEEPS THE MOUNTAINS AWAY (Dancing Star Press, 2026). stories, essays, scholarship at various forums. https://tanvir-ahmed.com/

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Caroline M. Yoachim@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the current @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, I interview Rida Altaf about "Judar of the Island: A Story Told in Four Feasts," a powerful story of magic, privilege, and vivid descriptions of food. Read the story: tinyurl.com/f9jdbtr5 And the interview: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/inte...

Interview: Rida Altaf - Uncanny Magazine

Rida Altaf (she/her) is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan, and a recently graduated Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree in comparative literature. She is very much interested in all kinds of we...

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Afghanistan Analysts Network @aanafgh.bsky.social · 15h ago

How did the son of a farming family in Jaghori become one of the Shia world’s most senior ayatollahs? AAN looks back at the remarkable life & ideas of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq Fayyaz – from his journey to Najaf to his distinctive views on women, politics ^ religious authority. bit.ly/4xgMoU4

A Son of Jaghori: Remembering Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq Fayyaz, 1930-2026

For centuries, a steady stream of Afghan students have gone to the great Shia Islamic seminaries of Iran and Iraq in search of religious learning. Few rose as high as Mohammad Ishaq Fayyaz, who died i...

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Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 3w ago

Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonial rule. africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...

Odyssey to Africa’s last colony

Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...

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Amnesty Deutschland@amnesty.de · 2w ago

Hat Pakistan Kriegsverbrechen in Afghanistan verübt? Am 16. März starben bei einem pakistanischen Luftangriff auf ein Rehazentrum in Kabul mindestens 269 Menschen - eine neue Untersuchung von Amnesty widerlegt nun pakistanische Angaben, dass der Luftangriff einem militärischen Ziel gegolten habe.

Afghanistan/Pakistan: Deadly Pakistan air strikes on Kabul drug rehab centre should be investigated as possible war crime – new investigation

Amnesty International finds no evidence to support Pakistan military's claim that site was a legitimate military target

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Afghanistan Analysts Network @aanafgh.bsky.social · 2w ago

What shapes a household's trajectory during a prolonged economic crisis? We revisited the same Afghan households almost five years after 2021 to explore that question. What we found challenges simple narratives of "recovery." bit.ly/3Rj6aPC

Inside Afghanistan’s Unequal Economic Recovery: How households have fared since 2021

Since the crash following the collapse of the Republic in August 2021, Afghanistan’s economy has witnessed a modest recovery, although many households have not. In a new longitudinal study, AAN has fo...

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Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 2w ago

Keep hope alive for a hundred people in Gaza. At one link. Every hour gets darker, but we don’t give up. It is this commitment that works magic. Healthcare, food, medicine, disability needs for these families. Click "weekly" on a coffee to sustain this.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Tanvir Ahmed@tanawir.bsky.social · 2w ago

Everything @gautambhatia88.bsky.social has said here about The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away is so dear to me. I am thinking now about this line specifically, how reading could conjure “a slice of the time that formed me.” (1/5)

Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's the third Monday of July, so here's a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. James Baldwin, the Otherwise Award, thoughts on @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social's Womb City and @tanawir.bsky.social's novella & more.

Tanvir Ahmed@tanawir.bsky.social · 4w ago

News of this book is pure delight. I still recall the unique pleasure of teaching the Pauper Prince to close out my first undergrad seminar. All students wanted more time in the world of the text (and I with them). Now I cannot wait to linger in the depths of @usmantm.bsky.social's book.

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only took fourteen years of dreaming & heeeeerrreee it is! Friends, I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel with you all. The most desi haunted haveli ever! Haunted places. Haunted people. And some very haunting stories Preorder link in the thread

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only took fourteen years of dreaming & heeeeerrreee it is! Friends, I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel with you all. The most desi haunted haveli ever! Haunted places. Haunted people. And some very haunting stories Preorder link in the thread

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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · last mo.

#2026IgnyteAwards Nominated for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence – Tanvir Ahmed @tanawir.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence

Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…

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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · last mo.

Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com is nominated for the #2026IgnyteAwards Critics Award and is a regular Strange Horizons contributor! You can find her Short Fiction Treasures columns here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/au...

Maria Haskins

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and translator. She writes speculative fiction and poetry, and currently lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two kids, and a very large black dog. ...

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Afghanistan Analysts Network @aanafgh.bsky.social · last mo.

What happens after people are forced to return home? AAN's new report looks into the realities facing Afghan returnees from #Pakistan, from debt and lost livelihoods to the struggle to rebuild. bit.ly/43V7fji #Afghanistan

Returning to Uncertainty: How Afghan returnees from Pakistan are struggling to rebuild their lives

Some six million Afghans have been forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan since September 2023, almost half of them in 2025, making it one of the largest return movements of any nationality in recen...

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