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Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency – Q&A with the author
Read moreby Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of…
Transcendent God, Rational World: A Māturīdī Theology
by Ramon Harvey Ramon Harvey introduces his approach to Islamic theology in his new book Transcendent God, Rational World: A…
Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution in Five Questions
By Laetitia Nanquette Laetitia Nanquette, author of Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the…
The Lost Splendour of Ghazni: Rediscovering an Islamic Capital in Medieval Afghanistan
By Viola Allegranzi Located in present-day Afghanistan, Ghazni was once a prosperous commercial and cultural centre at the crossroads of…
Introducing Critiquing Gender and Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives
by Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots It has been over 10 years that we have seen uprisings in the…
Media and Jihad: Understanding the Meanings and Aesthetics
By Simone Pfeifer and Christoph Günther Recent violent attacks in Kabul, Dresden, Paris, or Vienna, legitimized as Jihad, urge our…
Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century
by Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Religion and belief are two of humanity’s oldest identity codes. Identity is intertwined with religion and,…
Palestinian lives matter
By Ronit Lentin When the announcement of the candidacy of Israeli lawmaker and retired general Efraim ‘Effi’ Eitam as director…
Opium in Afghanistan, a glimpse from the past
By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…
The Future of the Energy Transition for Middle East Gulf Economies Post Pandemic
By Jamil Hijazi, Jessica Obeid and Michel-Ange Medlej Jamil Hijazi and co-authors (Jessica Obeid and Michael-Ange Medlej) navigate the future…