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Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics
Read more: Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politicsAliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

Excerpt from ‘Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis’
by Mieke Bal My new book explores and analyses making “thought-images” by means of “image-thinking”. In my experience in making films and video installations I learned that making images and thinking through what the process involved and yielded, as a…