Sina Rahmani is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. He recently completed his PhD in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. His current research examines the link between the rise of the refugee problem and the postwar history of containerization.
Sina Rahmani
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Writing on Public Books
“It’s When There Are a Lot of Them That There Are Problems”
The sorrow and outrage provoked by the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were underwritten by an all-too-familiar grand narrative: These were not the cowardly misdeeds of a group of disaffected and delusional youth; this was another instantiation of a primeval war of civilizations extending far beyond the Île-de-France. Accordingly, grandiose statements about […]
Those Refugees
While most Americans were looking forward to this past Independence Day, an ugly scene was unfolding in Murrieta, California. Patriotic citizens, armed with placards that read “America has been invaded” and “Return to Sender,” blocked buses ferrying undocumented migrants to the town’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center. This was no ordinary display of xenophobia. […]
