What We Are Reading Today: The Rohingya Crisis by Mohammed Abdul Bari

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Updated 18 November 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: The Rohingya Crisis by Mohammed Abdul Bari

Widely known as the world’s most persecuted minority group, the Rohingya in Myanmar are now facing extinction. 

Denied citizenship rights, denied their very ethnic identity, hundreds of thousands have fled Rakhine State in Myanmar over the border into Bangladesh, where they face squalid conditions. 

Many have witnessed death, mutilation and rape, as well as whole villages, what they called home, burning to ashes.  

Mohammed Abdul Bari, a leading British Muslim figure, has no doubt been saying that the Rohingya have been facing genocide. 

In this concise but powerfully argued book, he brings to light the scale and barbarity of their suffering and argues that the international community.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overinvested’ by Nina Bandelj

Updated 17 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overinvested’ by Nina Bandelj

Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point—how we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work.

At the turn of the 20th century, children went from being economically useful, often working to support families, to being seen by their parents as vulnerable and emotionally priceless.