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  • 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
  • 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
  • Peacock
    Issue 27 Beauty

    Beauty in Islam

    In no other religion does the concept of beauty play such a crucial role as in Islam. The concept of aesthetic beauty or the beauty of the form…

    Doris Behrens-Abouseif
  • 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
  • A city skyline at night with building lit up by lights
    Issue 26 Gastronomy

    Twice Removed Migrant

    In January 2018, I went back to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, my birthplace. We Ugandan Asians were exiled from the country in 1972. I settled in…

    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
  • The Wisdom of Owls Asleep
    Issue 24 Populism

    The Netherworld

    Until recently, populism hid a double-bind. For it carried with it two perfectly contradictory sets of associations. Both sets had direct connections…

    Ashis Nandy
  • Students in Dhaka
    Issue 23 Bangladesh

    Dhaka

    Every city moves to its own beat. Although I am a city dweller through and through, it took me some days into my visit to Dhaka before I could sense…

    Hassan Mahamdallie