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Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Four years after NATO's 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the logics of the evacuation continue to stratify Afghans amid expanding deportation and authoritarian regimes. My piece on @TheContrapuntal: "An Imperial Evacuation." thecontrapuntal.com/an-imperial-... Artwork: Mohsin Taasha

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Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @merip.bsky.social. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, Farnaz & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian & @maryahannun.bsky.social. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025. merip.org/2025/06/bann...

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Courts of Exclusion—Working-Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran - MERIP

n 2016, Gol Agha, a ball boy and worker at a private tennis club in Tajrish—an affluent neighborhood in northern Tehran—went to an administrative office in Karaj to receive a […]

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Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This panel brings together artists, librarians, and scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan and its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary and artistic possibilities for rethinking archives. April 11, 2025, 1pm-2pm(EDT) www.library.upenn.edu/events/rethi...

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Rethinking Archives on Afghanistan

What does archival work mean in Afghanistan and its diasporas?

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Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Mar 6 – The 2016 documentary Overruled follows the lives of male refugees from Afghanistan who work as “ball boys” in tennis clubs in Iran. Following a screening, directors Farnaz Jurabchian & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian talk w/ Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social via Zoom. tinyurl.com/5n8dfmj2

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Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I published an article in the Special Issue of the journal Afghanistan on "The Fall of the Republic and the Return of the Taliban," edited by Robert Crews.

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Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In this book chapter, I discuss the experiences of refugees politically and legally categorized and treated as “male” and “Afghan,” within carceral structures spanning Germany and Afghanistan: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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