Showcasing some of the best Documentaries and Talk Shows
Thu 03 October 2019: Iraq’s barely year old government is being forced to deal with the largest nationwide protests since taking over. Riot police contained demonstrators in Baghdad on Wednesday, 24 hours after bullets and tear gas were fired. At least three people died and hundreds of others were injured in Baghdad as well as […]
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Tue 01 October 2019: Tariq Ramadan is recognised by many as the most prominent Islamic studies academic in the Western world. But at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Ramadan was forced to take leave from his post as Oxford University’s Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies over sexual assault allegations. He denied the […]
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Wed 18 September 2019: Kashmir has been under a strict lockdown ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the state of its autonomy in August 2019. But repression in Kashmir isn’t new. Since partition in 1947, Kashmir has faced heavy militarization, brutal crackdowns and communication blackouts. Why have Indian governments attempted to squash dissent […]
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Tue 10 September 2019: In this special edition of The Listening Post, we focus on Xinjiang’s detention camps and examine how Uighur journalists, Chinese state media, and “open-source” researchers have covered the story. How China spins the Xinjiang story to the Chinese It is not clear how many people are currently being held against their […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Weeks after India initiated its ongoing military crackdown and communications blackout in Kashmir, activist Kavita Krishnan says that Islamophobia has played a “huge role” in justifying India’s encroachments on the region’s autonomy. “What they are doing is that they are projecting this victory over Kashmir, this triumph over this rebellious Muslim […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Since India enforced a crackdown on the disputed territory of Kashmir on Aug. 5, people in the region have been under a severe communications lockdown and experienced shortages of food and medicine. Kashmiri women and girls have expressed particular anger about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements implying that the change in […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: In Kashmir, residents have entered their fourth week of a severe lockdown after India revoked the special status of the Indian-controlled part of the Muslim-majority territory. On August 5, India imposed a curfew and cut off all communications to the region. More than 4,000 people, including many political leaders, have been […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Is Kashmir occupied territory? After its Hindu king signed the instrument of accession 70 years ago, the region remains in an unresolved conflict. Here’s how it all started. Courtesy: TRT World Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Tue 27 August 2019: The conflict in Kashmir has gone unresolved for 70 years. As one of the world’s longest-running territorial disputes, it’s killed thousands of people. And renewed violence in the past year has dashed hopes an end could be just around the corner. But with both nations now armed with nuclear weapons, a […]
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Sun 11 August 2019: Twenty-five years have passed since the 1991 incident in which Indian army soldiers allegedly raped between 23 and 100 women in Kashmir’s Kunan and Poshpora villages during a search operation. The Indian army has denied the accusations and a delayed investigation of the incident concluded that the allegations were “worthless” and no […]
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