The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Najwa Mayer is a writer and scholar who researches the cultural politics of race, gender, Islam, and US empire. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at Boston University.&nbsp;

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War Is a Structure: On Jamil Jan Kochai’s “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories”

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Najwa Mayer is a writer and scholar who researches the cultural politics of race, gender, Islam, and US empire. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at Boston University.&nbsp;

Najwa Mayer

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War Is a Structure: On Jamil Jan Kochai’s “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories”