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Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Read more: Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the BarmakidsTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
Staging Banquo’s Ghost
Catherine Belsey and Alan Dessen discuss the complexities of creating Banquo's ghost for the stage in Macbeth.
John Kinsella’s ‘The Fever Chart’, out now in CounterText 6:1
Issue 6:1 of CounterText features ‘The Fever Chart’, a new and extraordinarily timely novella by John Kinsella. Begun in late…
Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland
A Q&A with Gavin Miller, author of Miracles of Healing, an investigation of the relationship between religion and psychotherapy in…
Interreligious Polemics as a Window into Early Modern Iran
If anyone decided to do a quick search for scholarship on interreligious polemics, especially of the Muslim-Christian kind, he or…
Health Service Provision Challenges in 19th-century Afghanistan and Now
By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that…
Was there a Catholic school architecture?
By Diane M Watters In 2018, Scotland commemorated 100 years of local authority-run Catholic schooling since the 1918 Education Act.…
Queering Freud Differently: On the new special issue of Psychoanalysis and History
By Andrew DJ Shield, University of Leiden Queer Freud Today At an all-gay dinner last month, a friend – trained…
The real effects of offshore petroleum developments on environmental protection in Guyana
By Alicia Elias-Roberts My inspiration for writing the article on Balancing Environmental Protection and Offshore Petroleum Developments in Guyana, which…
Threat Perception in International Relations: Gender, Race, and Heteronormativity
With the advent of COVID-19, the fear of terrorism – the world's overriding security concern since 9/11 – has faded into the background.