From Translator to Travel Writer: Shahnaz Habib Deconstructs Modern Tourism's Colonial Legacy
Award-winning translator Shahnaz Habib discusses her debut book 'Airplane Mode: A Passive-Aggressive History of Travel’, which examines modern tourism through a critical lens. Combining personal narrative with cultural history, Habib explores how colonialism and capitalism have shaped travel, focusing particularly on documents like passports that both enable and restrict global movement
Award-winning translator Shahnaz Habib discusses her debut book 'Airplane Mode: A Passive-Aggressive History of Travel’, which examines modern tourism through a critical lens. Combining personal narrative with cultural history, Habib explores how colonialism and capitalism have shaped travel, focusing particularly on documents like passports that both enable and restrict global movement
