Critical Muslim

Fire — Issue 57

C Scott Jordan suggests that fire has become so hypernormal that we are almost numb to it, Salma Khalid takes a philosophical and historic walk…

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Also in this issue: Lucien Zell visits Cairo, Carolyn D’Cruz flips through an encyclopaedia of Palestinian family, Kostas Maronitis digs into the deep petro-state, Anushka Chaudhuri discovers the ambiguity of Bangladeshi identities, Philip T. Sumner reads the family history of Mishal Husain, a short story by Adil Thanveer, and poems by Shadab Zeest
Hashmi, Steve Noyes, and Imran Haq.

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Issue 57 Fire

The Fire of AI

When God taught Adam the names of all things, a flame was lit that has never gone out since. That moment of divine instruction, the birth of…

Taiwo Adepetun

Issue 56 Journalism

INTRODUCTION: THIS IS THE BBC

Mrs Robertson lived two doors from my humble abode in north London. She had one daughter who migrated to Australia. In her early seventies, she lived…

Ziauddin Sardar

Activists doing a demonstration outdoors

Issue 20 PostWest

PostWest Anxieties

French sociologist Michel de Certeau argued that ‘narrations about what’s-going-on constitute our orthodoxy’. We can say the same about narrations…

Gordon Blaine Steffey

Issue 57 Fire

Must Qalandars

I am a Sindhi. You inherit something as a Sindhi. If you are lucky, you get the Sindhi language and a culture. The Sindhi language, as we know it…

Qalandar Bux Memon

Issue 56 Journalism

Good Journalism

We have arrived at a post-truth world in which ‘polycrises’, from intensifying climate catastrophe to retrograde wars perpetuated by autocrats, are…

Zain Sardar

Issue 57 Fire

Ten Contemporary Self-Proclaimed Arsonists

Fire is simply a chemical reaction. It is difficult to speak of will or intention when considering fire as such. Many fires have started by all accounts, randomly, and not necessarily for lack of investigating a cause! And a variety of theories seek the reason behind some of…

Issue 56 Journalism

A Dozen Media Outlets to Check Out (Daily)

Stuff the BBC. Forget Sky News, CNN, and the rest of the so-called legacy media. Quit Facebook, shun TikTok, and the rest of the pestiferous social media. The Gaza genocide has exposed the true façade of conventional, mainstream media in the West; and the toxic nature of…

Issue 55 Fascism

C Scott Jordan's Ten Farcical Fascists

Fascism has delivered some of the greatest evil humanity has ever had to experience and endure. The horror’s wrought are nigh incomprehensible. The twentieth century is a century we may not ever be able to truly understand. If one good thing came out of the devastation of that…

C Scott Jordan

Issue 56 Journalism

Return to Cockburn

Claud Cockburn, one of the finest hacks there has ever been, wrote that journalism is very simple: it is a mixture of advertising and entertainment and to succeed you need only decide who you want to entertain and what cause, as it were, you wish to advertise. He had no time for…

Andrew Brown

Interior damage to an Armenian church in Mosul, Iraq, destroyed during the ISIS occupation of the city.

Issue 20 PostWest

The West is Dead

It is clear. The West is dead. It is time to stop beating a dead West. It is time to start grooming and riding new horses beyond even postnormality.

Jim Dator

Issue 49 Scotland

Breaking News

The morning sun lights up Maryam’s face through the gap in the curtains. She lies there with her eyes closed, enjoying the gentle heat. She knows she should get up, but her blanket hugs her whole body with kindness and forbids her from leaving the warm bed. It is a rare comfort…

Parand