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Afkar e Taza ThinkFest is an academic and policy literary festival which brings the world's academics, thinkers and opinion makers to Pakistan for a robust yet accessible discussion and dialogue.
Humanity’s deepest known ancestral roots are in Africa, and every person alive today ultimately descends from populations that lived there.
The historical situation during the Atlantic, Trans-Saharan, or Indian Ocean slave trades, the reality is that enslaved Africans generally had very few rights, though the exact conditions varied by place and period.
Zeinab Badawi argues that African history should include the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan systems so that the continent’s historical experience is understood more completely.
Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan challenges the idea of inclusion when it comes with conditions.
She argues that minorities are often asked to make themselves palatable, marketable, and consumable before their humanity is acknowledged.
Dr. Mehrub Awan’s idea is that a minority is not only a demographic fact; it can also be a social and political construct. A society may define certain groups as different, inferior, deviant, or outside the norm. By doing so, the majority gains a sense of identity, superiority, normalcy, or unity.
Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan argues that people across genders are carrying different forms of exhaustion, trauma, and social pressure.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. views environmental stewardship as a form of patriotism, arguing that a nation’s identity is inseparable from the landscapes, rivers, and ecosystems that have sustained its people throughout history.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. contends that the Indus River is what sets this region apart from the rest of India. As the lifeblood of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, the Indus has for thousands of years shaped local cultures, livelihoods, and patterns of settlement, leaving a historical and ecological imprint that continues to define the region today.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. argues that the violence we see in our societies mirrors the violence we perpetrate against the land itself; the degradation of nature and the erosion of social harmony are deeply intertwined.
Vali Nasr’s central point is that Shia Arabs are not simply extensions of Iran, even though Iran often benefits politically from the rise of Shia power in the Arab world.