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TUESDAY JANUARY 7, 2003
ASIA PACIFIC FORUM on WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
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Hot Off the Presses! Preview the Latest Issue of SAMAR Magazine on the
Dogmas of War
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Tune in tonight as Asia Pacific Forum takes a sneak peek at the latest issue
of SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection): the Dogmas of
War.
What does it mean to intervene effectively in a situation where even the most
basic of human rights are under threat? SAMAR responds to this issue in our
current forum. Through poetry and analyses we concentrate on the responses
of common citizens and activists to various wars all over the world. Be it
in the US , Sri Lanka or Palestine, the forces of militarism continue to
operate with impunity, and we need newer words to describe their force, as
well as emergent forms of activism that characterize resistance to this new
force. Our contributors to the forum try to frame a new politics and
aesthetics of intervening in the nervous condition of the immigrant,
where “it has been decreed that none will walk with their heads held high.”

Tonight we sample from a selection of articles and features in this issue.
We will hear poetry from Saba Waheed and Mehnaz Sahibzada that responds to
war through the multiple, impossible intersections of religion, gender, race,
nationality, art and activism.

We will also talk to Manu Vimalassery about his article “Passports and Pink
Slips,” which outlines the relationship between the economic recession,
immigrant labor, and the war at home and abroad.

Finally we will hear from Naeem Mohaiemen about his article “Who’s Afraid of
Bangladesh?” which describes the ways in which international media attention
has helped to create and blow out of proportion an Islamic threat emanating
from Bangladesh, weaken internal opposition to such a threat (real or
perceived), and fan regional rivalries within South Asia.

In addition we will hear music from Abstract Humanity and Indian Ocean, two
musical groups featured in the current issue.

Saba Waheed is a poet, a member of the SAMAR collective and one of your co-
hosts for this evening!

Mehnaz Sahibzada lives in Santa Barbara, is a poet and a graduate student at
the University of California, Santa Barbara where she studies Islam in the
US.


Manu Vimalassery is a student in the American Studies program at NYU. He
lives in New York City and central New Jersey.


Naeem Mohaiemen runs Shobak.Org, a website for “Outsider Asian Voices.”


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APF, and Saba Waheed of the SAMAR collective.
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ABOUT SAMAR

SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection) is a magazine
with a South Asian focus based in the United States and published
twice a year. We choose to use the term "South Asian" because we feel
it is important to bring attention to the fact that South Asians are
a group of people with a shared history and that this history
provides a common basis for understanding our place in the
contemporary world. Whereas most other South Asian magazines are
based on differences of region, religion and nationality within South
Asia, we have chosen to base ours on a South Asian collectivity that
is now spread out across the globe. At SAMAR, we hope to reflect the
full complexity of "South Asian" in the composition of the editorial
collective, contributors and readers.

SAMAR responds to a need for a publication that fosters serious
debates within the South Asian community and is meant for a general
audience. It focuses on analyses of social processes rather than on
direct reporting of news events. As suggested by the name of the
magazine, SAMAR tends towards social analyses that draw their energy
from activist involvement.




For more information about SAMAR, a South Asian Left media resource,
please contact: SAMAR, P.O. Box 1349, Ansonia Station, NY, NY 10023;
e-mail: [e-mail];
www.samarmagazine.org