I recently got a haircut. I don’t have a regular hairdresser, instead I will often go to the place that is most convenient rather than find myself in a routine of visiting the same spot.

What delivered me to the dinner table of Saliha Sardar is the sort of thing that vilifies the timeless cliché that ‘things happen for a reason’. And God has a keen sense of poetic irony and justice, crafting the whole story and not necessarily catering to your liking.

My work explores the relationship between religion and modernity. Many of my paintings draw conceptually on the social and cultural phenomena associated with the Muslim world, which is why I have named my particular style ‘Islamicate Impressionism.’

When the march happened, I was in the Caffè Nero above Blackwell’s trying to write a story about Luz, a woman I had met doing fieldwork in Colombia on polarisation.

Three poems by Farid Bitar.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975), the Italian Marxist film director, was a towering polymath who made a significant contribution to shaping the intellectual and political landscape of the twentieth century.

What’s wrong with philosophy? Does it have any relevance to contemporary problems and issues? 

Heaven forbid one day the phrase ‘ask ChatGPT’ becomes as colloquial as ‘google it!’ Only time will tell.

It was end of July, and I was headed along the coast of Trinidad on the Buccoo Reef, a passenger vessel that bore the name of the fishing village in which my father was born and to which, once we dropped anchor in Tobago, I would journey.

My mother Jena, was a devout, highly intelligent and independent minded Muslim woman.