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  • 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
  • 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
  • Capetown Malay Street
    Issue 53 Water

    Endless Shores

    ‘Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.’I feel that these two lines by Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, are addressed to me.I…

    Ebrahim Moosa
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Women in Taliban Afghanistan
    Issue 49 Scotland

    Breaking News

    The morning sun lights up Maryam’s face through the gap in the curtains. She lies there with her eyes closed, enjoying the gentle heat. She knows she…

    Parand