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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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