Race

Hassan Mahamdallie thinks that the colour line will blight the twenty-first century, Shanon Shah argues that Islam and race have combined to produce a complex identity, Robert Irwin exposes the dark side of the Arabian Nights, Hugh Kennedy relates the story of the revolt of the Zanj slaves, Ziauddin Sardar denounces the bigotry of the Gulf states, Avaes Mohammad revisits his home town, Blackburn, Jim Wolfreys is appalled by the rise of Islamophobia in France, Gary McFarlane examines the career of the American anti-slavery fighter John Brown, Ruth Waterman taps into the memory of Bosnia, Tasnim Baghdadi plays with her hybrid identity, Samia Rahman discovers cool Muslim women, Naima Khan accuses South Asian Muslims of looking down on blacks and Africans, and Sa'diyya Shaikh finds that Ibn Arabi can help us to become more human and humane.

In this issue

  • Baghdadi Sketch 4
    Art

    Hybrid Identity

    Tasnim Baghdadi works in multimedia: graphic design, digital illustration, and photography. She is of Moroccan heritage but was born and raised in…

    Tasnim Baghdadi
  • Palm trees in Southern Iraq next to a brick wall
    Issue 13 Race

    The Revolt of the Zanj

    The story of the revolt of the Zanj slaves in southern Iraq has always been seen as a striking exception among the political and social movements of…

    Hugh Kennedy
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