Esmaeil Zeiny, Ph.D. (2013), is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has recently co-edited Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism (Brill, 2018, with Sanaz Fotouhi).

• Foreword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity Arjuna Parakrama Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies Dustin J. Byrd 2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm? Rudolf J. Siebert 3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism Mladjo Ivanovic Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives Esmaeil Zeiny 5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina 6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Saʾeed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North Hiba Ghanem 7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born JM. Persánch 8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism Andrew Ridgeway Index

Esmaeil Zeiny, Ph.D. (2013), is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has recently co-edited Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism (Brill, 2018, with Sanaz Fotouhi).

• Foreword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity Arjuna Parakrama Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies Dustin J. Byrd 2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm? Rudolf J. Siebert 3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism Mladjo Ivanovic Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives Esmaeil Zeiny 5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina 6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Saʾeed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North Hiba Ghanem 7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born JM. Persánch 8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism Andrew Ridgeway Index

Esmaeil Zeiny, Ph.D. (2013), is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has recently co-edited Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism (Brill, 2018, with Sanaz Fotouhi).

• Foreword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity Arjuna Parakrama Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies Dustin J. Byrd 2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm? Rudolf J. Siebert 3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism Mladjo Ivanovic Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives Esmaeil Zeiny 5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina 6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Saʾeed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North Hiba Ghanem 7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born JM. Persánch 8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism Andrew Ridgeway Index