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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • See No Hear No Speak No
    Issue 52 Genocide

    Genocide Denial

    In June this year, a ninety-six-year-old German grandmother was given a sixteen-month prison sentence by a Hamburg court for repeatedly claiming that…

    Abdelwahab El-Affendi
  • 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
  • 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
  • Merkel & Olaf
    Issue 50 Halal

    German Redemption Theology

    Jerusalem, 18 March 2008. A first: German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech to the Knesset. Thus far, only heads of state, not heads of…

    Adnan Delalić
  • 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
  • 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