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Mind – Memory & Trauma, Photo Essay

What the Barbed Wire Cannot Erase: A History Teacher’s Museum Between Georgia and Ossetia

Fabio Lovati
Majoritarianism and Mass Violence, Profile

In Gaza, you put your soul on your hand and walk: Fatma Hassona and the cost of documenting a genocide

Saumya Singh
Dissent, Profile

To Bloom Like Jirhul and Cry “Hool!”: A Profile of Poet Jacinta Kerketta

Varsha Prakash, Arjun Rai Gupta
Hyperimperialism and Technology, Reportage

Flying Predator: The First Civilian Deaths of America’s Drone War

Aaquib Khan
State Violence and Carcerality, Reportage

Tehran’s Shadow: Why Kashmir’s Shia Youth Are Being Booked Under the Public Safety Act

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  • Letters from Palestine
  • The Demolitions Project
  • BK-16 Prison Diaries
Letters from Palestine, Personal Histories
Letter from Palestine: Between Ruins and Hope, an Undying Dream of Returning Home 
Asma Abu Hasanein
Israel releases Palestinian hostages
State Violence and Carcerality, Letters from Palestine
‘I’ve Returned from Hell’: Arrested Without Charge, Palestinian Journalists, Doctor Detail Torture in Israeli Prisons
Doaa Shaheen
Mind – Memory & Trauma, Letters from Palestine
Letters from Palestine: One by one, we may all fade away, but the martyrs will remain—still, silent, beloved of God
Sawsan Al-Ajjouri

The Polis Project, Inc. is a New York-based global magazine of dissent that documents communities in resistance at the intersection of politics, art, and culture. We are a hybrid research and journalism organization. Our work exposes the rise of authoritarianism—especially in democracies—while centering racial, class, and caste injustices, Islamophobia, and state oppression worldwide.

Dissent, Profile

To Bloom Like Jirhul and Cry “Hool!”: A Profile of Poet Jacinta Kerketta

Varsha Prakash, Arjun Rai Gupta

NARRATIVE CONTROL

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What the Barbed Wire Cannot Erase: A History Teacher’s Museum Between Georgia and Ossetia

Fabio

What the Barbed Wire Cannot Erase: A History Teacher’s Museum Between Georgia and Ossetia

Fabio

Indian Microdramas: How Platforms Are Replacing Writers with Speed

Arshia Dhar

‘No Less Than a God’: The Deification of Political Persona in India

Abhijay Rambabu

Don’t Say Palestine: Politics of Western Media Style Guides and Entrenched Bias 

Claudia Gohn, Shubhanjana Das

Social Media to Prison: Kashmiri Migrant Workers Languish in Saudi Jails, Often after Pro-Iran Posts

Irshad Hussain, Sameer Hussain

Influencers of the “Bulldozer Raj”: How Reels Legitimize a Digital Ecosystem of Hatred 

Samra Iqbal

Technologies of Genocide: Episode Four | The Uyghur Genocide: Surveillance, Global Capital, and Racialised Counterterrorism

 

Technologies of Genocide: Episode Three | What is happening in Congo will not stay in Congo

 

Technologies of Genocide: Episode Two | Bloodshed in Bangladesh

 

 

 

Technologies of Genocide: How Big Tech Profits from Mass Annihilation

 

Zoe Alexandra on the Abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and America’s Long Imperial War on Venezuela

State violence & carcerality

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Tehran’s Shadow: Why Kashmir’s Shia Youth Are Being Booked Under the Public Safety Act

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The Commander and the Scholar: Two Deaths in Mang

Wamiq Zahid

An Open Letter to the People of Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Polis Admin

Centre agrees to drop NEET protest cases as CJP calls off protests; Patna sees fresh wave of student arrests

Admin

Delhi Student Protest: At Least Five Pellet Injuries, Two Forces, One Ministry, and No Answers

Aritry Das, R Gupta

Orphans of an Unburied Past: Afro-Mauritanians Walk the Long Road to Truth and Justice

NadiaAddezio

DISSENT

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To Bloom Like Jirhul and Cry “Hool!”: A Profile of Poet Jacinta Kerketta

Varsha Prakash, Arjun Rai Gupta

Labor Protests Reveal Faultlines of Rising Contract Work in India

Uthara U.R

The Scholar They Called Anti-National: How Umar Khalid’s Fractured Communities reframes Adivasi histories, state power, and contemporary India

Shrishtikhanna, Prashantpundir

Self-Identification Under Threat: India’s Transgender Law Continues to be Challenged

Himanshi Aggarwal, Harishankar Manoj

When My Daughter Marched, and I Saw the Future Looking Back

Ruhani

An Open Letter to the People of Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Polis Admin

MAJORITARIANISM & MASS VIOLENCE

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In Gaza, you put your soul on your hand and walk: Fatma Hassona and the cost of documenting a genocide

Saumya Singh
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India’s Deportation Regime: Minorities, Rohingya Refugees, and Due Process are All Casualties

Ankur Singh

Influencers of the “Bulldozer Raj”: How Reels Legitimize a Digital Ecosystem of Hatred 

Samra Iqbal

In Jammu, Cow Vigilante Attack Drives Youth into River; Leaves a Family and a Region Reckoning with Spreading Fear

Basharat Amin
This Land We Call Home

This Land We Call Home: A Formidable Counter to the Hindutva Narrative of Forced Conversion

Sohel Sarkar

Ramadan and Its Changing Meanings in the Shadows of Gaza’s Ruins 

Husam Maarouf

LAWFARE

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The Caged Frontline: How the Indian State Criminalized Adivasi Youth Dissent in Bastar

Malini Subramaniam

‘No Safe Haven for War Criminals’: Why a Legal Advocacy Group Urged India to Take Action Against Israeli Reservist

SuchitraV, Aritry Das
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India’s Deportation Regime: Minorities, Rohingya Refugees, and Due Process are All Casualties

Ankur Singh

How Green Laws and Carbon Markets Being Used to Prosecute Indigenous Land Defenders in Global South

Ahmadu Abubakar Ndakogarba
Former President Chakwera, Malawi

Fall of Malawi’s Pastor-President: How Chakwera’s Five Years of Instability and Repression Ended in Defeat

Raphael Mweninguwe

She Came to the US Fleeing Violence in Venezuela. Now She Faces Deportation.

Sam Judy

HYPERIMPERIALISM & TECHNOLOGY

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Flying Predator: The First Civilian Deaths of America’s Drone War

Aaquib Khan

Exporting Occupation: How the Israelification of Policing Reached Jantar Mantar

Anahita

The Dark Side of Green Economy: How Southeast Asia’s Sustainable Growth Fuels Surveillance and Repression

Umar Ibrahim Agaie
Ghana Bawku

In Ghana’s Bawku, Facebook Is the State

Menenaba
Koozhangal

Koozhangal: A Meditation on Masculinity, Endurance, and Caste

Naitri Derasari

How NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch Bolstered a System of Racialized Surveillance, Tech-integrated Policing

SuchitraV

CLIMATE & ECOCIDE

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Erasure & Ecocide: Post 2019, India’s Legal Re-Engineering is Hollowing Out Kashmir’s Rivers and Forests

TarushiAswani

The Dark Side of Green Economy: How Southeast Asia’s Sustainable Growth Fuels Surveillance and Repression

Umar Ibrahim Agaie

Out in the Deep: Malawi’s Women Fishers Cast Their Nets Beyond Tradition Toward Sustainability and Empowerment

Raphael Mweninguwe

Israel’s ‘Ecocide’ in Lebanon as a Tool of War and Displacement

Mehk

How Green Laws and Carbon Markets Being Used to Prosecute Indigenous Land Defenders in Global South

Ahmadu Abubakar Ndakogarba
Debris from Dharali flood.

Disaster as Policy: Dharali Flash Floods Reveal the Making of a Himalayan Catastrophe

Prashant Rahi

Mind – Memory & Trauma

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What the Barbed Wire Cannot Erase: A History Teacher’s Museum Between Georgia and Ossetia

Fabio

Orphans of an Unburied Past: Afro-Mauritanians Walk the Long Road to Truth and Justice

NadiaAddezio
Heat

Psychic Weather: Too Hot to Hold

Shaifila Ladhani

In Jammu, Cow Vigilante Attack Drives Youth into River; Leaves a Family and a Region Reckoning with Spreading Fear

Basharat Amin
Enclosure

Psychic Weather: On the Safety of Small Worlds

Shaifila Ladhani
Wounds of Pyre

Wounds of Pyre: Bringing the Dom Community’s Mental Well-Being Into Focus

Aisiri Amin

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