Select Creative Publications - Ather Zia

Select Creative Publications

Academic, Columns, Poetry, Fiction & Other Curated Works

2024 In honor of Refaat Al Areer and the Palestinian people, Creative Summit

2024. Solidarity with Palestine from Kashmir: Kashmiri, Hindi, and Urdu translations of Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die’, Introduction by Ather Zia

Kashmiri translations by Idrisa Pandit & Ather Zia, Hindi transation by Richa Nagar & Urdu translation by Abdul Aijaz

2023. Poem: For Khurram, You Choose to fight. Outlook India.

2023. Solidarity Contribution in Transnational Solidarity With #WomanLifeFreedom: ‘I Stand in Awe of Iranian Women’ by Yalda N Hamidi & Dominik. Drabent. Ms. Magazine.

2022. The Gilded Cage: Kashmir in Winter of An Apocalypse. Outlook India.

2021. Kashmiris in India are still suffering. Al Jazeera.

2021. Arrest of activist Khurram Parvez shows a new hostility towards civil society in Kashmir. Global Voices.

2020. a day in a life that inches prayer by prayer. poetry. Adi magazine.

2020. Kashmir Siege. (Excerpts from a verse journal 2019). ‘Each gulp is a dagger’: Five poets respond to the altered reality of Kashmir after the lockdown. The Scroll.

2020. Mrs Bhat’s Kashmiri Fish Dinner. Fiction. Guernica Magazine.

2020). in Kashmir all phones are dead. University of Nottingham: Crossed Lines: poet interview Dial a Poem project.

2020. one lazy august afternoon from a childhood in Kashmir. Poem. The Scroll.

2020. GAG, HOME, KILL: Three Poems. The Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop.

2020. Listening Through the Silence. Adi Magazine.

2020. The Hindu Rashtra Comes of Age. Contending Modernities.

2020. joint interview by Zia Ather & Nimmi Gowrinathan with Anuradha Bhasin. In Kashmir, The Surreal Is Very Real Now. Adi Magazine.

2019. Revocation of Kashmir’s Autonomy is Culmination of Decades-Long Plan. Globe Post.

2019. There is reason to fear for the safety of every Kashmiri in India. Al Jazeera.

2019. The Verse Journal of Kashmir Siege (poetry, vol. 3 October). Visual & New Media Review. Society for Cultural Anthropology.

2019. Kashmir Only Bleeds. Poem. In “This is Not the Dawn: Poetry of Partition” Asian American Writers Workshop.

2019. How Facebook helps silence Kashmiris. The Caravan journal.

2019. Kashmir Gaining International Traction, But Is It Being Heard? Outlook India.

2019. The Straw man arguments and the removal of article 370. Asia Dialogue.

2019. co-authored Osuri, G. & Zia Ather. ‘Till the soldiers return the keys’: unyielding resistance in Palestine and Kashmir. Mondoweiss.

2019. co-authored Osuri, G. & Zia Ather. ‘Till the soldiers return the keys’: unyielding resistance in Palestine and Kashmir. Mondoweiss.

2019. Violence Breeds more Violence in Kashmir. Al Jazeera.

2018. co-authored [Misri, D., Bhan, M., Kanjwal, H., Duschinski, H] A decolonial feminist statement on #metoo in Kashmir. The Ladies Finger. Read here.

2018. co-authored Zia, Ather & Duschinski, H. The Legend of UNO Sahab. Outlook India.

2017. An everyday Kashmiri Feminist Man. Raoit journal.
[Since the eruption of violence in India’s northeastern states this journal is offline. Archive Link]

2017. Erasing Kashmir’s autonomous Status. Al Jazeera.

2017. No this is not Kashmir. With Kashmir NewsDesk.
[This website has been suspended by the Indian government] Link at way back machine

2017. Resistance as a way of Life, Al Jazeera English.

2017. We shall resist the occupation. The Raoit.
[Since the eruption of violence in India’s northeastern states this journal is offline. Archive Link]

2017. The end of fear in Kashmir Valley. Warscapes

2018. Partition Poems: In Kashmir, Writing Under Occupation. The Shoreline Review

2018 – May 2019. A series of 10 children’s stories titled Gula and Friends: Tales from Kashmir. The Zanvun Lokchaar India.
[This magazine site has been censored. Link from way back machine]

2017. Trace. Poem. Visual Verse magazine

2017. Kashmir: From Orient to the State of Exception. The Funambulist.

2016. Kashmir’s Desire for Independence is older than India and Pakistan Baroda Pamphlet, (2nd ed., vol. 10).

2016. Peace Activist Khurram Parvez’s Illegal Detention in Kashmir Valley May Be Proof “He’s Doing Something Right”. Global Voices

2016. Being of Faith. Poem. The Raoit Journal. https://raiot.in/being-of-faith/
[Since the eruption of violence in India’s northeastern states this journal is offline. Located on wayback machine here]

2016. ‘They want us to write. In blood.’ Four poems on Kashmir, A selection of yet-to-be-published poems on life – and death – in the valley. The Scroll

2016. The End of Fear has come to stay. Daily O.

2016. In Kashmir it’s the boys. Poems. 3 Quarks Daily.

2016. Azadi Resurrected: A Referendum in Blood. Huffington Post India.
(Huffington Post India suspended publication. Link on internet archive)

2016. Wake Up and Smell Kashmir’s Undying Resistance. Huffington Post India. Link on internet archive

2016. ‘Foundational Violence’: What Really Happens When Kashmiris Join the Civil Services.
Huffington Post India. Link on internet archive

2016. Hurray! India Lost! Cricket As a Mode of Kashmiri Resistance. Huffington Post India. Link on the internet archive

2016. I’m A Kashmiri. This Is What I Thought When Kanhaiya Said Kashmir Is Integral to India – Huffington Post India. Link on internet archive

2013. Last Signature. A Ghazal for Agha Shahid Ali. 3 Quarks Daily.

2010. In the Killing Fields of Kashmir. Dissident Voice.

2010. Kashmir’s Stone Pelter: Answers to Questions from Someone called the Sovereign. Dissident Voice

2007. Wither Kashmir: Short Term Glory or Long-Term Solution. Dissident Voice.