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  • Izzet Bey in his suit and his sons Naim and Mustafa
    Issue 43 Ignorance

    A History of Forgetting and Ignorance

    This is a history of forgetting, of my father’s unravelling mind, the memories blanketed by a fog of emptiness, but also of the willed forgetting…

    Alev Adil
  • Pakistani Street
    Issue 41 Bodies

    The Hunter Inside

    Monday. The phone begins to ring in my pocket as soon as I disembark in Karachi. It’s an occupational hazard here – people want to know where you…

    Aamer Hussein
  • Mohammad Asad
    Issue 40 Biography

    Asad, The Neglected Thinker

    Born to Jewish parents in 1900 in the Austria-Hungarian Empire, Leopold Weiss converted to Islam in 1926, changed his name to ‘Muhammad Asad’, and…

    Josef Linnhoff
  • Rumi the Poet
    Issue 38 Humour

    Sufi Satire

    David Mamet has defined satire as ‘a type of wit that is meant to mock human vices or mistakes, often …to expose political missteps or social…

    Bruce B Lawrence
  • Athens from Above
    Issue 36 Destinations

    Delusional Athens

    Few ancient cities flaunt, obsess over but also degrade their antiquity like Athens. An Italian traveller sighting it in the seventeenth century…

    Iason Athanasiadis
  • sunset over the Atlantic Ocean.
    Issue 35 Muslim Atlantic

    INTRODUCTION: What is the Muslim Atlantic?

    As we tell stories about Muslims today, what kinds of worlds do these Muslims inhabit? When we speak or write about contemporary Islam, which…

    Daniel Nilsson DeHanas and Peter Mandaville
  • Defining the Artifcial
    Issue 34 Artificial

    Artificial Defined

    The word artificial, like many other words, is a mixed bag, best conceived of as a semantic continuum encompassing positive, neutral and negative…

    Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
  • a view of the earth from space at night
    Issue 34 Artificial

    4 Earths

    For two decades, there has been growing discourse about the name of the rock strata that will be associated with homo sapiens in the future…

    Christopher B Jones
  • Pakistan
    Issue 33 Relics

    Lingering Scents of Hyderabad

    They say that scent elicits the strongest memories, can transport you back into times long relegated to a distant past, bring forth fragments of…

    Rita Sonal Panjatan