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  • London Bus
    Issue 29 Futures

    Postculture

    The Indian-American sociologist, Arjun Appadurai, argues that we should consider ‘the human preoccupations that shape the future as a cultural fact’…

    Richard Appignanesi
  • Grandfather Telling a Story paining by Albert Anker
    Issue 28 Narratives

    INTRODUCTION: Stories We Are Heirs To

    Let me tell you a story…To begin at the beginning. I’ll tell you how it was… In the beginning there was talking. ‘Where did we come from?’ ‘It’s like…

    Merryl Wyn Davies
  • Historic image of a street featuring horse-drawn carriages
    Issue 26 Gastronomy

    Our Kitchen in 1940s Baghdad

    The house of my childhood in Baghdad had two courtyards, haush, Middle Eastern style. The larger one was the centre of the main living area, with…

    Sami Zubaida
  • Baghdadi Sketch 4
    Issue 13 Race

    Hybrid Identity

    Tasnim Baghdadi works in multimedia: graphic design, digital illustration, and photography. She is of Moroccan heritage but was born and raised in…

    Tasnim Baghdadi
  • aerial view of the Medina from the phoenician tombs near body of water during night time
    Issue 09 The Maghreb

    Souk Shopping in Tangier

    It was shopping that first inclined me towards an interest in Islam, though it must be said that the lupine line of hassling touts that in the old…

    Barnaby Rogerson
  • three brown puppies
    Issue 06 Reclaiming Al-Andalus

    Muslim Dogs

    It was a packed London underground train, so social interaction was already set at a glacial minimum –the standard non-communication of a…

    Barnaby Rogerson
  • Issue 05 Love and Death

    The Ghazal

    The ghazal, or love lyric, evolved out of the pre-Islamic Arabian qasida, or ode, and the origins of the qasida go back to a time before Arabic…

    Robert Irwin
  • Jilani Caligraphy 4
    Issue 04 Pakistan?

    Atia Jilani: Writing the Qur’an

    Atia Jilani is a self-taught calligrapher, a painter and a writer living in the village of Mohammad Abad. She is the first Asian woman to inscribe…

    Syed Haroon ur Rasheed Ahmed
  • The famous loam mosque of Djenne in Mali, Westafrica
    Issue 01 The Arabs Are Alive

    Griots

    Griots hold the memory and history of a community. They are the storytellers, musicians and singers of songs of praise. They are the archives. They…

    Jean Ann Ndow