Dissertation
This dissertation by one of my postgrads has been made available in the UWTSD Repository: Husain, Adnan Mustafa (2024) The Bedouin of the Fatimid Empire Faith vs. Politics in...
‘Defiance‘ documentary
Channel 4‘s ‘Defiance‘ documentary series can be streamed (in the UK) via this link (requiring log-in). “The story of how – from 1976 to 1981 – Britain’s Asian community...
Minaret Demolition
AP/alarabiya, Unraveling history: Demolition of Basra’s minaret sparks cultural preservation debate, 20 July 2023 “In the early hours Friday morning, the 11-meter-high (33-foot-high) minaret was razed to the ground,...
India Internet Issues
Parth M.N., Instagram Posts About a 17th-Century King Are Getting People Arrested, 17 July 2023 ““What has happened offline has happened online,” says Osama Manzar, founder of the Digital...
Bradford 12 Documentary
BBC World Service, Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1 “As a Pakistani immigrant teenager in 1970s Britain, Tariq Mehmood endured homelessness and years...
Timbuktu: Qur’an Manuscript Fragments
Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor, HMML, Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections, 16 Mar 2023 This is really interesting. Do check out the whole article....