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  1. Read more: Screening: Javaid Shampoo (2004) at Recess, Brooklyn, Saturday October 10
    Khajistan Releasing poster for Javaid Shampoo (2004), four stills from the film under the title

    Screening: Javaid Shampoo (2004) at Recess, Brooklyn, Saturday October 10

    by Khajistan

    Khajistan screens Javaid Shampoo (2004), by Faisal Rehman and Bilal Hasan Minto, in its Directors’ Cut at Recess, Brooklyn, on Saturday, October 10. Office Hours with the Portal from 1 to 4 PM, screening from 4 to 6 PM. Free.
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  2. Read more: Khajistan Portal Opens at Recess, Brooklyn
    The Khajistan Institute for Advanced Research and Necessary Development reception room in the house yellow and green — the pigeon in atom orbits over KHAJISTAN in heavy caps, balloons on the floor

    Khajistan Portal Opens at Recess, Brooklyn

    by Khajistan

    Khajistan is moving part of the archive into a room in Brooklyn for two months and building the rest of it in front of whoever walks in. September 19 to October 24, 2026, at Recess.
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  3. Read more: Khajistan Press at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, 2026
    Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2026 key art, September 24–27 at MoMA PS1

    Khajistan Press at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, 2026

    by Khajistan Cultural Desk

    Khajistan Press exhibits at table M13 at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, 25–27 September 2026. Four books launch at the table: Hunting Homosexuals in Occupied Iraq, Karachi, After Midnight: Volume 3, No Unnecessary Contact, and An Erection in Pakistan.
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  4. Read more: No Myth Here — Khajistan in Pioneer Works' Broadcast
    Khajistan: Office of War Information (O.W.I.) at Pioneer Works

    No Myth Here — Khajistan in Pioneer Works' Broadcast

    by Khajistan Cultural Desk

    Saad Khan and Joey Chriqui in conversation with Megan Fernandes for Pioneer Works Broadcast — how the archive began, why the O.W.I. office was built to feel like your uncle's, and what the leaflets were actually for.
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  5. Read more: Archive Forensics: Firdusi No. 5, November 1978 — In That Suffocation, If Only They Had Let Us Be
    Firdusi No. 5, New Series — cover, 6 November 1978

    Archive Forensics: Firdusi No. 5, November 1978 — In That Suffocation, If Only They Had Let Us Be

    by Khajistan Cultural Desk

    Archive Forensics: Part of an Ongoing Series In Archive Forensics, we pull one magazine out of Khajistan's digitized archive and read it closely. T...
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  6. Read more: Archive Forensics: Al-Dunya al-Musawwara (Issue 34, 8 January 1930) – The Illustrated World
    Archive Forensics: Al-Dunya al-Musawwara (Issue 34, 8 January 1930) – The Illustrated World

    Archive Forensics: Al-Dunya al-Musawwara (Issue 34, 8 January 1930) – The Illustrated World

    by Khajistan Cultural Desk

    Archive Forensics: Part of an Ongoing Series In Archive Forensics, we pull one magazine out of Khajistan's digitized archive and read it closely. T...
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