Muqawama: When the Rooh Remembers
[cover art: Debashish Chakrabarty]—first annual issue of uncolonial ethnographer(s)
You are invited to gather with us for the launch of Muqawama, the first annual issue of uncolonial ethnographer(s): https://youtu.be/yBVBZ6TvpHc
This evening isn't only the beginning. It's a quiet call across distances—an evening shaped by dhikr, resistance, and the long breath of those who walked before us. We're meeting to honour the ones whose names live in our marrow, whose rooh moves through us, the ones beside us now, and the ones who circle us in ways we can feel but never fully name.
As Lalon sang into the centuries,
"খাঁচার ভিতর অচিন পাখি কেমনে আসে যায়"
Khãchar bhitor achin pakhi kemne ashe jay—
a reminder that the soul moves like a hidden bird, entering and leaving this body in ways known only to the Divine.
A reminder that zindagi and death are passages, not endings.
That true azadi begins with knowing the self, letting go of illusion, surrendering to a love deeper than fear.
We hold this hikmat close because muqawama, too, is soul-work—a practice of the rooh.
Every struggle for liberation carries an echo of that unseen bird—moving, surviving, refusing to be caged.
This is sumud. This is baqa. This is the long arc of refusal.
This is an invitation from the Mezban to the Mehman—
an open table for anyone who wishes to sit with memory, beauty, and the quiet himmat of people who refuse erasure.
Come with curiosity, uncertainty, tenderness, or silence.
All of it belongs. All of it carries baraka.
Muqawama gathers voices shaped by many lands and wounds, drawn from the global majority's enduring legacy of refusal.
We offer this work not as an answer, but as part of a longer lineage: seeing with haq, remembering with sabr, and insisting on dignity in a world built on forgetting.
Come share space with us.
Come listen, or simply be.
Come for the beauty that survives every border.
Come for the stories that rise when people stand uncolonially together.
Come for the rooh that won't be silenced.
A gathering for memory, for sumud, for the seen and the unseen.
All are welcome.
collective curators
uncolonial ethnographer(s)
When & Where
Friday, November 28, 2025 | 17:45
Kaleido Bar | Bremer Str. 32, 48155 Münster
Open door. Just come.
