Water

C Scott Jordan immerses himself in images of water; Ebrahim Moosa is drowned and then saved by water; Liam Mayo learns a few lessons about water and modernity from the animated film Rango; Luke Wilkinson explores the notion of sea in the Qur'an; Christopher Burr Jones investigates our complex relationship with water; Wietske Merison suggests that the Sharia has a great deal to say about sinking cities. Jeremy Henzell-Thomas has a dream (several actually) of oceans and divinity; Shani Alexander remembers the well in her Carriacou home; Naomi Foyle comes to terms with metaphors of water; John Liechty reveals his deep reverence for water; Alev Adil has a sinking feeling; and Khuda Bushq meanders around Kuala Lumpur trying to discover how water speaks.

In this issue

  • Capetown Malay Street
    Philosophy

    Endless Shores

    ‘Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.’I feel that these two lines by Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, are addressed to me.I…

    Ebrahim Moosa
  • Drowned World 2
    Art

    Drowned World

    I woke up early, with a start, suddenly evicted from a dream, as though compelled by a forgotten task or someone calling me. Villa Oneiro was…

    Alev Adil
  • A classic lota of course!
    History

    A Most Refreshing Inventory

    ‘In days of old when Knights were bold’, says the much-loved limerick of schoolboys, and paper wasn’t invented they wiped their arse…

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