Tahrir Square Robin Yassin-Kassab

Cairo felt different. Tahrir Square, of course, carried a new set of meanings. The traffic, the pollution, the Stalinist gloom of the Mugamma building—these had shrunk, and revolutionary graffiti, redignified…

The Aisha Project Alev Adil

…troubled too. There are fierce scholarly debates. The Sahih al-Bukhari, one of the six major hadith collections of Sunni Islam, compiled over twenty-four years and completed in 846, considered the…

The List: Ten World (Dis)orderers Jordi Serra del Pino

…groovy colours – green, blue, brown, or even technicolour? Would you like your pet mice to be green or fluorescent? Well, your desire can now be fulfilled. Just visit www.the-odin.com…

Cinema of Defiance Yasmin Fedda

…Gods and Dogs, director, The Abounaddara Collective, 2013. The Sundance Film Festival prize ceremony can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p61qP2jdFOg Art of Surviving, director Azza Hamwi, 2013. It can be seen…

Allah, Asè and Afros Adama Juldeh Munu

…head covering, Blackness, and faith in the US. ‘I honestly believe hijabhas an ancestral component that a lot of people don’t know and don’t realise. As somebody who comes from…

Review: New Muslim Cool Saffi-Ullah Ahmad

…why should I subscribe to Critical Muslim? New Muslim Cool, produced and directed by Jennifer Matorena, Co-produced by Hana Siddiqi and Kauthar Umar, distributed by Seventh Art Releasing, $19.95; www.newmuslimcool.com…

Networks of Love Samia Rahman

…how I remember one particular rishta encounter. The word rishta literally means relation; but it is most often used when a marriage suitor comes calling, family in tow, to ask…

Erbil Diary Robin Yassin-Kassab

…else – as an annoyance. My life at home was being disrupted, my comfortable routines, my standard small measures of time. The amount of experience allowed in a usual day’s…

The List: Top 10 ‘Please-God’ Gadgets The List

…website, ‘Haq Char Yaar’ (‘Truth, Four Friends’, who are the four Rightly Guided Caliphs; http://www.kr-hcy.com/index2.shtml) provides a very useful definition: ‘getting rid of un-cleanliness, which one gets when one excretes…

Name Your Innovation Shanon Shah

…http://www.lettertobaghdadi.com), released in September 2014 and signed by several conservative Islamic scholars, lawmakers and community leaders. (These included the former and current Grand Muftis of Egypt, Ali Gomaa and Shawki…