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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Photograph of Nehar Aamir
    Issue 45 Transitions

    After 75 Years

    The decades since independence from colonial rule have seen Pakistanis settle in the UK and build communities that are now entering the fifth…

    Asiya Iftikhar
  • Franz Fanon
    Issue 44 History

    Anticolonial Resistance in Morocco

    It is commonly acknowledged that Islam played an important role in anticolonial resistance in different parts of the Muslim world. Muslim countries…

    Abdelaziz El Amrani
  • 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
  • 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