2025/07/01 by Deandrea, Pietro
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Black British Literature #Dissent #Hamja Ahsan #Islamophobia #Middle East Politics and Society #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies #South Asian Studies and Diaspora #Talha Ahsan #War on Terror
paper · doi:10.13136/2724-4202/1701
openalex publication_date 2025/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/12/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The contextual frame of the article is the widespread Islamophobia which has been scarring British society, particularly after the July 2005 bombings. After presenting the laws and policies which have been worsening this phenomenon (and especially the 2003 Extradition Act) and their impact on British Muslims, the article concentrates on some creative responses represented by Talha Ahsan’s written and video poetry and by Hamja Ahsan’s artivist writings. In different ways and forms, both brothers broaden their concerns onto other forms of otherness, thus stressing the critical power of margins and the political importance of dissent.