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FIFA World Cup 2026: Extract from The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch
Read more: FIFA World Cup 2026: Extract from The Beautiful Game on a Muslim PitchAs the FIFA World Cup 2026 unfolds, read an extract exploring the relationship between football, religion and identity in Muslim contexts.
James Joyce and the two McCarthys
by Derek Attridge There are two names in the subtitle of my book Forms of Modern Fiction: Reading the Novel…
Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis
I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways
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…
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…
Situating the crusades in Syrian history: a Q&A with James Wilson
Tell us a bit about your book My book is about the situation in Syria before, during and after the…
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…
Sticky Screen Media in the Age of Personal Devices
by Nick Jones Screens are sticky. When we look at our phone, open our laptop, boot up our PC, turn…
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.
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…