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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.
“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square
Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…
Common Good: The curious case of Princes Street Gardens
Andrew Ferguson discusses Common Good Law and the curious case of Princes Street Gardens
A New Age of Whitehead Scholarship
At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred…
Beyond time travel in time travel stories and cinema with Gilles Deleuze
Trips into history. Journeys to the future. Encounters in the present with visitors from the future or past. There are…
Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue
Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.
Arabic and Hebrew in one Text
Dr Mohamed A. H. Ahmed discusses authors who started their literary careers writing in Arabic before switching to write in Hebrew due to social surroundings
Diversity in British Film and Television
The controversy over ‘all-white’ 2020 BAFTAs once again shows the importance of understanding that issues of diversity are at the…
Aristotle and gender: form vs matter?
Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary…
Scottish Muslims: Unity and Belonging
Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made…