Mohamad Junaid is an anthropologist at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He researches violence, nationalism, culture and politics in South Asia and has written extensively on military occupation, history, space and resistance in Kashmir. Dr. Junaid's essays have also appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Greater Kashmir, Tanqeed, Al-Jazeera, Turkish Radio and Television, Tehelka, and Guernica. Junaid grew up in Kashmir.