Paperback: 76 pages
Publisher: Khabar Keslan, 2021
Language: English

ISSUE 5. CONTRADICTION explores the irreconcilable forces we encounter, adjust to, and live with. It is an investigation into how we have dealt with ideas and feelings of inconsistency. The essays in this issue pose complex questions that cannot be resolved with a single answer. How does an uprising negotiate between the impulse to rave and the impulse to revolt? How do you fight structures of disparity while participating in them? What histories are held within your eczema? What does a pet cockroach do in an elite boarding school? From the emptiness of nationalism to the tension between practicality and optimism in Kabul’s architecture, our authors each unearth deeply-situated uncertainties that permeates our lives.

Khabar Keslan is an independently run, volunteer-based, primarily English-language online review featuring art and critique relating but certainly not limited to the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA). This is a dedicated platform for dissidents, artists, critics, and those on the margins.