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Lolita in Japan

Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love

Alan A. Stone

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia Exports Salafism to the War-Torn Region

Tariq Mir

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

Tara McKelvey

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

Shaheen Buneri

Feast and Famine

India is growing, but Indians are still starving.

Siddhartha Deb

Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Natural disaster is paving the way for the manmade variety.
Syed Saleem Shahzad

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

Martha C. Nussbaum

State of Emergency

Moni Mohsin

Bad News

Authenticity and the South Asian political novel.

Amitava Kumar

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh.

Nicholas Schmidle

Delivering Health Care

A case study on Cambodia.
David Clingingsmith, Michael Kremer

Inside Madrasa

A personal history.

Ebrahim Moosa

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

In search of justice in East Timor.

Joseph Nevins

A Forbidden Hope

Reviewing Deepa Mehta's Water.

Alan A. Stone

Manifesto

An argument for democracy in Taiwan.
Theodore Huters, The Editors of Taiwan

See No Evil

Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou.
Alan A. Stone

Reading China

What American conventional wisdom gets wrong.

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Body of the Nation

Why women were mutliated in Gujarat.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Letters from Chomsky and Galbraith on JFK and Vietnam

James K. Galbraith, Noam Chomsky

The Cult of Authenticity

India’s cultural commissars worship "Indianness" instead of art.

Vikram Chandra

Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos.
Robert Perkinson, Kieko Matteson

Imagining the Nation

On poetry from Vietnam.

Nguyen Ba Chung

Inside the Death Factory

On women vets of Vietnam.

Christine L. Kane

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