Mohaiemen, Naeem. "A Looking Glass War: Bangladesh’s Pendulum-swing Liberation War Cinema." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 16, no. 1 (2025): 48-77. drive.google.com/file/d/1yd8j...

<The film ‘Grace’ (2023), by Naeem Mohaiemen, addresses this situation directly. His project was a collaboration with Karen Wentworth (1956-2023) who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.> www.c-print.se/post/the-las...

Talk by Naeem Mohaiemen followed by a discussion with Sanchayan Ghosh at Arthshila Santiniketan. This discussion takes on the multifaceted and dialectical nature of photography in the two Bengals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sik7...

<If India and Pakistan are Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981), Bangladesh emerged as what I called Midnight’s Third Child (2023). This independent nation-state has grown despite setbacks, but we are yet to escape the forever-poisoned tree of 1947.> www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi...

<His role during the war in Dhaka, witnessing devastation but keeping no war memorabilia or photographs, intrigued Sawant. “The absence of photographs in my family home spoke volumes about how deeply the war affected those who lived through it.”> theprint.in/feature/arou...

<Both the novelist Elias and his novel Khwabnama bear witness to the collapse of multiple utopia projects–the lack of velocity for communist politics within united Pakistan, and finally the implosion of the Socialist parties in post-independence Bangladesh.> www.thedailystar.net/opinion/focu...

Irfan Chowdhury: <Gandhi in Noakhali (Tarak Das), poet Nazrul and Promila Devi (Sayeeda Khanam), the Zinzira bazar (Kashi Nath Nandi), a pregnant mother-in-waiting (Munira Morshed Munni), are just a few that caught my curiosity.> www.dhakatribune.com/amp/opinion/...

SPRINGERIN (Austria) “Solidarity” issue: What about the concept of “transformational” solidarity that is not content with rhetorical lip service but focuses on the transformative power of planetary interdependence?

The exhibition also seeks to grasp the accident in its full moral ambiguity: the fall as a moment of revelation, doubt as an antidote to the process by which opinion congeals into arrogance, and serendipity as a creative method.

Hydrographies brings together artists, activists, and thinkers whose work engages water as a contested terrain, revealing how rivers, oceans, and aquifers are mobilized in contemporary struggles over land, sovereignty and survival. Lucas Gasselstraat 2a. 5613 LB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Mohaiemen, Naeem. "A Looking Glass War: Bangladesh’s Pendulum-swing Liberation War Cinema." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 16, no. 1 (2025): 48-77. drive.google.com/file/d/1yd8j...

Fresh hope, constellate around the word, tracing history (Hunt-Hendrix & Taylor’s “Solidarity”), its aesthetics (Szakács and Mohaiemen’s “Solidarity Must Be Defended”), its contradictions (Schulman’s “The Fantasy of Solidarity,” D’Souza’s “Imperfect Solidarities”. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...

<Several other film works demand your attention. Arthur Jafa is present with a trippy song in pixellated charcoal that you sink into—happily—for what feels like forever. Naeem Mohaiemen directs a feature-length love story in an abandoned hospital.> www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/12/s...

Now avaialble in Canada at The PowerPlant, Toronto shop.thepowerplant.org/Solidarity-M...

<to carry new formations; to carry the embrace of a river current; to carry sisterhood and communal connection; to carry the rays of a morning without fear> www.sharjahart.org/en/sharjah-b...

Available through direct order. solidaritydefended.org

Available on Amazon. www.amazon.com/BAKSHO-ROHOS...

For orders outside Bangladesh. www.amazon.com/Midnights-Th...

For orders inside Bangladesh. www.rokomari.com/book/309457/...

Now available in Bangladesh. এখন রকমারি’তে পাওয়া যাচ্ছে। www.rokomari.com/book/448359/...

December 24th, 2024.

December 22nd, 2024.

আলমগীর কবির স্মৃতি বক্তৃতা ২০২৪ …………..…………………………………….. সবাইকে বিজয় দিবসের শুভেচ্ছা। ১৭তম আন্তর্জাতিক স্বল্পদৈর্ঘ‍্য ও মুক্ত চলচ্চিত্র উৎসব উপলক্ষ‍্যে আয়োজিত আলমগীর কবির স্মৃতি বক্তৃতা অনুষ্ঠানে আপনি সবান্ধব আমন্ত্রিত॥ বিষয়ঃ ‘মুক্তির গান’, ইতিহাসের মঞ্চায়ন, এবং দর্শকের বিশ্বাস বক্তাঃ নাঈম মোহায়মেন স্হান: বিশ্ব সাহিত‍্য কেন্দ্র, বাংলা মটর তারিখ ও সময়ঃ ২৪ ডিসেম্বর, বিকেল ৫ টা

MACHINE VISIONS series at School of Arts, Columbia University.

December 5th, NYU. The Bangla phrase “shothik itihash” (correct history) has many meanings. An early, sardonic use can be found in Mohaiemen’s 2014 book Prisoners of Shothik Itihash. Mohaiemen revisits this project in the present of post-uprising power-vacuum Bangladesh. as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Two meetings and a funeral de Naeem Mohaiemen, explore les possibilités utopiques d’une alliance des pays non alignés dans les années 1970 et 1980, à base d’archives exceptionnelles et de réflexion sur le rôle des institutions internationales. www.lejournaldesarts.fr/expositions/...

Installing RETURNS @ Neiman Gallery, Columbia University.

Installing Ridwana Rahman’s homage to pavement dreams. For “Returns” at Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, curated by Roma Patel. With works by Ridwana Rahman, Colm Keady-Tabbal, Naeem Mohaiemen, Rama Ghanem.