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New Books in May by Ideas on Fire Authors

Fantastic new books by Ideas on Fire authors about queer anthropology, hip hop histories, Indigenous science and technology, and more.

Wazhmah Osman on Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film

Wazhmah Osman on Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film

Wazhmah Osman addresses the politics of memoir, what the trauma of war does to archival research, and her critically acclaimed documentary film, Postcards from Tora Bora, which recounts Wazhmah’s return to her childhood home of Kabul, Afghanistan nearly 20 years after her family fled Cold War violence.

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