Ashraf Hoque
Ashraf Hoque is an associate professor of social anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton (UCL Press, 2019) and Mafia Raj: the Rule of Bosses in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2018), and a co-aditor of the “Anthropology of Islam” book series at Edinburgh University Press.
The historic struggle for housing by Bengali migrants in London
Shabna Begum’s ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfields’ offers a searing history of Bengali squatters in 1970s East London, and a chilling reminder of how migrants continue to be treated by a hostile British state
Aug 25, 2023
Britain’s Banglatown
How the Bangladeshi community has come to shape local politics in Tower Hamlets.
Dec 28, 2014
Latest Articles
India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
Disillusioned with the Taliban, Pakistan reverses its four-decade Afghan policy
As Kabul refuses to act against the TTP and Baloch militant groups, Pakistan is ending the support it has extended to the Taliban since 1994 and its welcome to refugees from Afghanistan since the 1980s
The limited genius of Geoffrey Bawa
‘Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives’ allows an exploration of the rift between the celebrated architect’s vision for nation-building in Sri Lanka and the country’s present reality
Interview: The precarity of Afghan migrants in Pakistan
Political scientist and author Sanaa Alimia speaks of the long history of racial profiling, harassment and deportation of Afghan migrants, in the context of Pakistan’s recent crackdown
