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‘Despite it all?’: The Failure of Iraq’s Thawrat Tishreen
The largest protest movement in Iraq’s history, Thawrat Tishreen of 2019, shouldn’t have achieved so little. The movement pursued...
Asa Breuss-Burgess
20 min read
History in Turmoil
Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long A simple act of faith, in reason over...
Dmitri Safronov
50 min read
Rebel Rebel: In Conversation with Soheila Sokhanvari
Soheila Sokhanvari is a British-Iranian artist whose diverse practice delves into the complexities of identity, politics, and social...
Nancy Lura
23 min read
Advocacy for Afghan Women Judges: In Conversation with Marzia Babakarkhail
Marzia Babakarkhail, a former family law judge in Afghanistan during the 1990s, has dedicated her career to justice. In the wake of the...
Angelina Spilnyk
11 min read
A Democratic Alternative for Post-Theocracy Iran: In Conversation with Ali Safavi
Ali Safavi is a member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and President of Near East Policy...
Solomon Njombai
29 min read
The Fight for Justice for Yazidi Women: In Conversation with Nadia Murad
Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist. In 2014, she was abducted from her hometown in Iraq, Kocho, by the Islamic State, as part...
Nadia Jahnecke
9 min read
Nowhere to Call Home
Boarding a crowded Delhi Metro train, I was crammed up with four college boys who seemed quite amused by my Tibetan face. As if the grins...
Tenzin Tsundue
11 min read
Life as a Hazara Woman in Afghanistan: In Conversation with Soomaya Javadi
Soomaya Javadi is a Hazara human rights activist who fled Afghanistan with the help of the 30 Birds Foundation. Actively advocating...
Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read
Educational Rights for Baha’i in Iran: In Conversation with Iqan Shahidi
Iqan Shahidi is a PhD candidate in Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. He completed his undergraduate studies in...
Casper Alexander Sanderson
16 min read
Making the Law ‘Take its Own Course’
Does the law take its own course or is it made to take a certain course? Property cases are notorious for taking forever, but when the...
Jyoti Punwani
20 min read
A Note on the Controversy concerning Eric Gill
On 12 January 2022, there was an attempt to destroy, or at least damage, the statue of Prospero and Ariel installed outside the BBC’s...
Peter Brooke
25 min read
Amir Tataloo, Beyond Resistance and Propaganda: The Appropriation of Iranian Rap Music and the Negotiation of its Legality
Introduction No one knows about Amir Tataloo. Bahman Ghobadi’s film No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) could be seen as a dynamic...
Casper Alexander Sanderson
35 min read
Why would an Atheist Write a Commentary on the Bible?
I became an atheist at the age of eight. After one of my Hebrew-school teachers devoted a 90-minute class to recounting her experiences...
Matthew H Kramer
9 min read
A Symphony of Defiance: How Music Spearheads Sikh and Punjabi Articulations of Political Resistance
Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again. —Attributed to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb[1] Over...
Jeevan Singh Riyait
8 min read
Disciplinary Action and Freedom of Artistic Expression
I. The case of George Gavriel A recent incident in Cyprus re-ignited the debate about the limits of artistic freedom. George Gavriel, a...
Achilles Emilianides
13 min read
Augustine on Canonical Penance: An Ethic of Criminal Sentencing
Introduction Canonical Penance in the early Church and the modern concept of prison, broadly construed, are both processes of...
Alexander Levy
21 min read
Does the Concept of ‘Spiritual Resistance’ Add to our Understanding of Jewish Life in the Ghettos?
In his seminal 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews , Raul Hilberg proposed a thesis that sought to explain a perceived lack of...
Nathaniel Rachman
23 min read
‘Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?’: Job 41 in Hobbes’ Masterpiece
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with...
Peter McLaughlin
12 min read
Mapping the Modern Sacred in Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (2013)
The assumption we live in a secularized world is false. The world today … is as furiously religious as it ever was. —Peter Berger[1] Fig...
Marie-Louise James
12 min read
The French Veil Debate: State Insecurity and the Family
The family is often presented as an opponent to the state as the location of power, or as an alternative to state institutions. The 2004...
Mary Osborne
12 min read
The Ecclesiastical Mosaic SYNTERESE (Dedicated to the 520 Occupied Churches of Cyprus)
Fig 1. Returning (detail of SYNTERESE (Father Demosthenes Demosthenous 2020, mosaic)). Akropoli-Strovolos. Courtesy of Father Demosthenes...
Father Demosthenes Demosthenous
15 min read
We the People? The Conservative National Identity and its Role in American Political Polarisation
Identity drives human agency. Who we consider ourselves and the groups we are part of determines the choices we make. This principle is...
Christopher George
13 min read
The Sacred and the Profane
Fig 1. Sacred and Profane Love (Titian 1514, oil on canvas). Wikimedia Commons. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiziano_-_Amor_S...
Matthew Sargent
10 min read
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