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  • Urs Concert
    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
  • Claud Cockburn
    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…

    Andrew Brown
  • La Guernica
    Issue 55 Fascism

    Guernica: Things to Come

    On 24 June 1937, a mass meeting was convened by the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of refugee Basque children at the Albert Hall…

    Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
  • Mussolini & Hitler
    Issue 55 Fascism

    What is Fascism?

    The global growth of the far right should alarm anyone who believes in freedom, equality, and social justice. Its political leaders detest all three…

    Donny Gluckstein
  • The John Locke
    Issue 54 Liberalism

    Liberalism: An Autopsy

    Around the beginning of this century, I started to worry about the Timothy Garton Ash (TGA) problem. Tim (as he then was; the name lengthened with…

    Andrew Brown
  • The ICC
    Issue 52 Genocide

    Genocide, Then and Now

    In Spring 146 BC, Roman forces led by Scipio Aemilianus breached the walls of Carthage, spending the next seven days systematically destroying the…

    Maha Sardar
  • M Iqbal The Great Poet
    Issue 51 Desire

    INTRODUCTION: Orbits of Desire

    Let’s begin with the great man himself.The Grand Sheikh. The illustrious portrayer of desires.The anthology of celebrated poems by Muhyiddin Ibn…

    Ziauddin Sardar
  • HFA in Action!
    Issue 50 Halal

    The Last Word: On the Halal Food Authority

    Order order!This was not the cry of a butcher at a halal meat stall, but the Speaker of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain agreeing to an…

    Asim Siddiqui
  • Great mosque of Hassan 2 at sunset in Casablanca, Morocco. Beautiful Arches of the Arab mosque in the sunset, sunlight rays
    Issue 49 Scotland

    The Artist, the General and the Hajjah

    Three Scottish historical figures have fascinated me and entered my fiction: David Roberts (1786-1864), Charles Gordon (1833-1885) and Lady Evelyn…

    Leila Aboulela
  • Photograph of Nehar Aamir
    Issue 45 Transitions

    After 75 Years

    The decades since independence from colonial rule have seen Pakistanis settle in the UK and build communities that are now entering the fifth…

    Asiya Iftikhar
  • Franz Fanon
    Issue 44 History

    Anticolonial Resistance in Morocco

    It is commonly acknowledged that Islam played an important role in anticolonial resistance in different parts of the Muslim world. Muslim countries…

    Abdelaziz El Amrani