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Refusal as caretaking: Lyric poetry and the War on Terror

Security Dialogue

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Abstract

Security Dialogue, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 707-721, December 2025.
This article follows the post-9/11 poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye and Solmaz Sharif’s ‘LOOK’ to understand how poets with proximity to the so-called Muslim World language a critique of imperial war. Specifically, I am interested in how lyric poetry betrays ...