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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.

Against the Erasure Machine: Scholasticide, Memory and the Power of Pedagogy
Henry A. Giroux argues for the necessity of critical pedagogy in resisting authoritarianism and scholasticide in Gaza, the USA and globally.

The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

Calling All Dissenters, Calling All ‘Woke’
by Stuart Sim The right to express political dissent is supposedly integral to democracy, but it is coming increasingly under threat from authoritarian governments. The danger this poses to the liberal democratic community is the subject of my latest book,…