{"id":1021,"date":"2024-02-12T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:05:56","slug":"azad-essa-hostile-homelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2024\/02\/12\/azad-essa-hostile-homelands\/","title":{"rendered":"Azad Essa: &#8216;Hostile Homelands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/qmulsouthasiaforum\/1155897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1023\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.59.45-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.59.45-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.59.45-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.59.45-768x1088.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.59.45-1084x1536.png 1084w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.59.45.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to welcome Azad Essa for a discussion of his new book <em>Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel\u00a0<\/em>(Pluto, 2023). The book contextualises the political and ideological links between these two countries, from the origins of Zionism and Hindutva to today&#8217;s growing military-industrial relationship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Azad Essa\u00a0<\/strong>is an award-winning journalist and author based between Johannesburg and New York City. He is a senior reporter for\u00a0<em>Middle East Eye,\u00a0<\/em>covering American foreign policy, Islamaphobia and Race in the US. Essa is author of\u00a0<em>The Moslems are Coming\u00a0<\/em>(HarperCollins, 2012) and\u00a0<em>Zuma&#8217;s Bastard\u00a0<\/em>(Two Dogs, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Azad Essa will be joined in conversation with\u00a0<strong>Sharri Plonski<\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in International Politics at QMUL, and the event wil be chaired by\u00a0<strong>Tanroop Sandhu<\/strong>, PhD Candidate in the School of History at QMUL.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/qmulsouthasiaforum\/1155897\">*Please Register via TicketTailor to Receive Room Info*<\/a> &#8211; <\/strong>This is an\u00a0<strong>in-person event<\/strong>\u00a0though Essa will join via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Co-hosted with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Peacein_India\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peace in India\u00a0<\/a>and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAsiaSolidarity\" rel=\"nofollow\">South Asia Solidarity Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to welcome Azad Essa for a discussion of his new book <em>Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel\u00a0<\/em>(Pluto, 2023). The book contextualises the political and ideological links between these two countries, from the origins of Zionism and Hindutva to today&#8217;s growing military-industrial relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}