Saad Khan's Khajistan Archives Censored South Asian and Maghreb Visual Culture

In 2019, Saad Khan established Khajistan with the mission of safeguarding overlooked and censored media from South Asia to the Maghreb, initially drawing from his collection of social media visuals for film projects. The archive, which includes meme-like images, seeks to "preserve real life that somehow disappears from the official record." Khan, who grew up in Lahore during the 1990s, relocated to the U.S. in 2014. Toshakhana, the physical archive located in Brooklyn, showcases a rich diversity of historiography and receives around 85,000 contributions from the community. Khajistan Press has released several publications, such as *Challawa* and *Karachi, After Midnight*, while Khan’s exhibitions address issues of censorship and class tensions through marginalized imagery.