A new quarterly publication hopes to reclaim critical debate about Muslims, latching onto the spaces out of Arab uprisings in the Middle East. Critical Muslim is a response to superficial journalistic tendencies that disservice the very idea of “critical scholarship” in Islamic tradition. A tradition - as Critical Muslim co-editor, Ziauddun Sardar, points out - that is too easily forgotten, most easily by Muslims actively consuming the very media that conveniently disengages them from critically thinking about the world in which they live.

Last night, I attended Land in Focus’s special country series showcasing a full cultural spectrum of arts with a regional dimension. Land in Focus highlights the films and cultures of countries from Latin America, …

The Arab Spring continues to blossom, in sporadic and unexpected ways: Spring interrupted by the chill of westerly wind, and spring fruitful of blooms in the gardens of the East, catapulted by human movement and …

Every one has a theory on what it means to be Egyptian right now. Defiant, aggrieved, oppressed, tired, agitated, fighters,vehement, fearless, revolutionaries, ready. Few seem to see the long and difficult process that led to this …

“Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s an Arab superhero and he came to bring change”. This is a line from the track “Superhero” on Omar Offendum’s (born Chakaki) debut …

Poetry International, the biennial festival of - you guessed it - international poetry returns to London this weekend. The festival itself features poets, readings, music and translations from over twenty countries, but the emphasis this …

“Microphone” is the new production by Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla. Using documentary style through a fictionalized narrative, Microphone tells the story of Alexandria’s underground music scene. However, Abdalla changes - or so we’re told - …

If you ask many young listeners about hip hop’s history, you’d scant hear about its roots in African-American culture, about its foundation as a subculture taking root from East Coast to West Coast, a movement …

There’s an interesting new project based out of the University of Kent who’s methods seem really cool, even if the ultimate ends seem questionably ambiguous. Through four new projects, the research programme Radical Distrust hopes …

For the characters inhabiting Amir Nizar Zuabi’s ‘I am Yusuf and This Is My Brother’, survival is paramount; but there is no redemption to be found in this haunting play.