Noora Shamsi Bahar

Noora Shamsi Bahar is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University, and a published researcher and translator.

Why are men more outraged over pads than violence against women?

Men objected to the public display of sanitary napkins at the Ekushey Boi Mela.

2w ago

Online grooming and the fight to protect our children

Grooming of minors by paedophilic adults seems to be an overlooked yet pressing societal anomaly

3w ago

Disney’s ‘Moana’: An offensive portrayal of Polynesian culture and mythology

Unsurprisingly, the film’s directors, Ron Clements and John Musker, are white, and it is almost as if “whiteness” prevents artistes, such as film directors, from portraying the non-white peoples with a non-colonial lens.

4m ago

Iran’s presidential elections: A smokescreen?

Should we believe that the same man who didn’t believe in women’s right to freedom of choice is now a changed “reformist”?

8m ago

Is the theme of this year’s Met Gala ironically prophetic?

The parallel between the 2024 Met Gala and 'The Garden of Time,' a short speculative fiction written by JG Ballard, is uncanny.

10m ago

Say their names to save their lives

Let Toomaj Salehi’s words strike a chord in our hearts, a chord that will spur action, no matter how small

10m ago

I, Whore; I, Birangona

Would it be too much to ask you/ To forgive me for the carnal sin I did not commit?

1y ago

The unclassifiable “monsters” of Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’

Guillermo Del Toro’s stop-motion animation, Pinocchio (2022) is loosely based on Carlo Collodi’s novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883).

1y ago
February 20, 2025
February 20, 2025

Why are men more outraged over pads than violence against women?

Men objected to the public display of sanitary napkins at the Ekushey Boi Mela.

February 17, 2025
February 17, 2025

Online grooming and the fight to protect our children

Grooming of minors by paedophilic adults seems to be an overlooked yet pressing societal anomaly

November 3, 2024
November 3, 2024

Disney’s ‘Moana’: An offensive portrayal of Polynesian culture and mythology

Unsurprisingly, the film’s directors, Ron Clements and John Musker, are white, and it is almost as if “whiteness” prevents artistes, such as film directors, from portraying the non-white peoples with a non-colonial lens.

July 10, 2024
July 10, 2024

Iran’s presidential elections: A smokescreen?

Should we believe that the same man who didn’t believe in women’s right to freedom of choice is now a changed “reformist”?

May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024

Is the theme of this year’s Met Gala ironically prophetic?

The parallel between the 2024 Met Gala and 'The Garden of Time,' a short speculative fiction written by JG Ballard, is uncanny.

April 28, 2024
April 28, 2024

Say their names to save their lives

Let Toomaj Salehi’s words strike a chord in our hearts, a chord that will spur action, no matter how small

December 16, 2023
December 16, 2023

I, Whore; I, Birangona

Would it be too much to ask you/ To forgive me for the carnal sin I did not commit?

October 26, 2023
October 26, 2023

The unclassifiable “monsters” of Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’

Guillermo Del Toro’s stop-motion animation, Pinocchio (2022) is loosely based on Carlo Collodi’s novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883).

July 22, 2023
July 22, 2023

Women’s revolution

The theocracy is crumbling in its seat

June 3, 2023
June 3, 2023

PTSD

Martyrs and-slash-or heroes they call us Is it worth all the fuss? While they celebrate We ache to recuperate