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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Capitol
    Issue 54 Liberalism

    The End of Something

    In 1992, American liberal thinker and academic Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man. The book gained instant notoriety; the…

    John Liechty