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There are intricate social, cultural and political factors that shape the shifting outlines of what words mean.

I hear what you don’t hear Have you ever listened to a language you don’t know and thought you recognized a word—only to realize later that you were completely mistaken? Our ears play tricks on us.…

*** Yasser S. Khan and Rizwan Ahmad *** Recently, a woman in Lahore was accused of blasphemy for wearing a dress printed with Arabic calligraphy. The crowd had assumed that the sartorial motifs mus…

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