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  • Rih Es-Sed Still
    Issue 09 The Maghreb

    Revolution in Maghrabi Cinema

    Mainstream narratives of the Arab Spring have been both simplistic and influential. The coverage of the uprisings in the Maghreb and the Middle East…

    Jamal Bahmad
  • 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
  • Fundamentally Book Cover
    Issue 55 Fascism

    Muslim Chick-Lit

    Literature, in both its historical and contemporary forms, serves as a record of the values and beliefs of the time in which it was created. This…

    Alev Adil
  • Drowned World 2
    Issue 53 Water

    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
  • Ready or Not
    Issue 51 Desire

    Ready or Not

    ‘Welcome to PostnormalTimes’. The first words inviting visitors into The Postnormal Times MADANI Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur (26 May–10 November 2024)…

    Maya Van Leemput
  • Finding Khidir Painting
    Issue 48 Saliha

    Visual Sensations

    My work explores the relationship between religion and modernity. Many of my paintings draw conceptually on the social and cultural phenomena…

    Safia Latif
  • 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
  • Athens from Above
    Issue 36 Destinations

    Delusional Athens

    Few ancient cities flaunt, obsess over but also degrade their antiquity like Athens. An Italian traveller sighting it in the seventeenth century…

    Iason Athanasiadis
  • Baghdadi Sketch 4
    Issue 13 Race

    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
  • Biennale
    Issue 08 Men in Islam

    The Aesthetic of Promise

    The Venice Biennale is regarded as one of the most prestigious cultural events in the international calendar. Its history dates back to 1895; since…

    Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
  • Jilani Caligraphy 4
    Issue 04 Pakistan?

    Atia Jilani: Writing the Qur’an

    Atia Jilani is a self-taught calligrapher, a painter and a writer living in the village of Mohammad Abad. She is the first Asian woman to inscribe…

    Syed Haroon ur Rasheed Ahmed
  • Park51 in New York
    Issue 03 Fear and Loathing

    Park51

    The Park51 project, originally called Cordoba House, is a planned community centre located in Lower Manhattan, New York. When it was first reported…

    Michel Abboud