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  • Q&A with Chibli Mallat, author of Democracy Redefined

    Chibli Mallat introduces 'Democracy Redefined' and explores the Lebanese Constitution's history and its unique approach to democracy.

    September 12, 2025
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Mediated intimacy: Lessons for the future from lockdown creativity

by Emily Goodwin and Sarah Brophy Video calls. Collaborative docs. Memes. “Live” concerts. Vaccine selfies. Netflix. Case rate data. Digital media provided lifelines during the COVID-19 global public health crisis. Yet as everyday life became more screen-centric than ever, the…

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  • August 11, 2023
A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…

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  • August 10, 2023

Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare – Q&A with the author

by Joan Lord Hall What inspired you to research eros in Shakespeare’s work? Knowing that I had taught Shakespeare for about 40 years and had authored several guides to his play, a friend provocatively asked me “Why don’t you write…

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  • July 28, 2023

Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again

Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews discuss the special issue of CounterText they've recently edited.

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  • July 19, 2023

Abstraction for all? Thoughts from the author of Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity

by Jeff Wallace When you’ve written something exploratory, it can take a little while to work out what it is that you’ve done. This blog about my new book Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman is written from…

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  • July 17, 2023

Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency – Q&A with the author

by Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of the human body across Samuel Beckett’s work. Such attention to the body and the varied forms it takes—often integrated with…

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  • June 9, 2023

Adam Smith and Scotland in the Age of Enlightenment

by Craig Smith 2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Smith is one of the very few writers whose name is genuinely famous all over the world. He is known as the father of economics, the…

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  • May 22, 2023

A common language and shared understanding of family violence? Corpus approaches in support of system responses to family violence

by Tonya N. Stebbins and Cara Penry Williams In an age where women are increasingly active in the workforce and have historically high rates of engagement with education, the lack of safety many experience in their own homes is profoundly…

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  • May 5, 2023

Book Celebration: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay

by Mario Aquilina and Nicole B. Wallack On 29 March 2023, two of the editors of The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, Mario Aquilina (The University of Malta) and Nicole B. Wallack (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) led a roundtable with…

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  • April 24, 2023
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