About
Naeem is editor of "Between ashes and hope: Chittagong Hill Tracts in the blind spot of Bangladesh nationalism", an anthology on militarization and ethnic minorities. Other co-edited books are "Collectives in atomised time" and “System Error: War is a force that gives us meaning”.
Recently, he was one of the critics of "Dead Reckoning", a new book on the 1971 war of Bangladesh. His response was cited by the BBC and was published in Economic & Political Weekly ("Waiting for a real reckoning on 1971").
Other essays on Bangladesh history include "Accelerated Media and the 1971 Genocide" (Economic & Political Weekly), "Musee Guimet as Proxy Fight against Army rule" (Playing by the Rules, Apex Art Journal), "Mujtaba Ali: Amphibian Man" (The Rest of Now, Rana Dasgupta ed.), "Mujib Coat" (Bidoun journal), and "Everybody wants to be Singapore" (Carlos Motta’s The Good Life). He wrote the chapter on religious and ethnic minorities in the Ain o Salish Kendro Annual Report for Bangladesh.
Essays regarding Muslim migrants include "Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic Roots of HipHop" (Sound Unbound, MIT Press DJ Spooky ed., Runner Up for Villem Flusser Theory Award),"Beirut, Silver Porsche Illusion" (Men of the Global South, Zed Books), "Why Mahmud Can’t Be a Pilot" (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the rules of Gender and Conformity, Seal Press), and "No Exit" (with Glenn Urieta, Secret Identities: Asian Superhero Comics, New Press).
Essays on culture issues include "Adman blues become artist liberation" (Indian Highway, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist) and "At the coed dance " (Death of the Curator issue, Art Lies).
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