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  • 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
  • Aziz Balouch
    Issue 32 Music

    Aziz Balouch

    The exploration of connections between flamenco, the main musical and dance tradition of Andalusia and the Romani people of Spain, and the music of…

    Stefan Williamson Fa
  • Extinction Rebellion
    Issue 31 Climate

    In Love and Rage

    On 17 November 2018, my life changed. Until then, for most of it, I’d felt like a spy abandoned behind enemy lines. The organisation I worked for had…

    James Brooks
  • Quran in the mosque
    Issue 29 Futures

    Futures in the Qur’an

    What does the Qur’an have to say about studying and exploring alternative futures? In certain circles, the question itself is regarded as somewhat…

    Mirza Sarajkić