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  • Iran's AI Lego video Image
    Issue 58 West

    The Last Word: On Slopaganda

    Our wonderful postnormal times have given us a string of new words. There is, of course, ‘post-truth’, a product of the now defunct philosophy – or…

    Khuda Bushq
  • Harry Frankfurt, author of On Bullshit
    Issue 58 West

    Enemies of Truth

    The concept of ‘bullshit’ has become an increasingly credible part of the theoretical toolkit utilised by political scientists and philosophers in…

    Zain Sardar
  • Manifest Destiny Painting
    Issue 58 West

    INTRODUCTION: Manifest This

    ‘Tis the season for ‘manifesting’!Manifest that perfect beach bod before spring gives way to summer. Manifest that serene workplace environment…

    C Scott Jordan
  • The Fire of AI
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If Oceans Were Ink by Carla Power
    Issue 56 Journalism

    Spiritual Journalism

    In these days of unfortunate polarisation, religious and political, it seems we cannot hear one another without suspicion or recrimination.An answer…

    Yahia Lababidi
  • Omar El Akkad
    Issue 56 Journalism

    Moral Amnesia

    There are books that read you first – they articulate the disquiet that has long been wordless in you. You close them feeling that the air around you…

    Leila Sansour
  • Journalism Ethics by Wishart
    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
  • 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
  • This is the BBC
    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