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Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

A Q&A on the making of Shakespeare Comics - exploring how graphic novels and manga adapt Shakespeare's plays and what they reveal about art, time, and culture.

July 10, 2025
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A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.

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 al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…

Edinburgh University Press
August 10, 2023

Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

Chasing the Dragon

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms