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A fascinating account of how Saudi Arabia leveraged its massive oil wealth to alter the balance of power in world football.

A landmark book on South Asian queer communities in Britain and how they have helped to shape LGBTQ+ movements since the 1970s.

The intriguing story of how two revolutionary writers and their pioneering war reporting changed the way we think about modern conflict.

A hundred-year history of the challenges and triumphs of contemporary Taiwan, through the inspiring true story of one man who lived through it all.

A captivating portrait of an overlooked Andalusian gem.

The first popular history of a small post-Soviet state, and a very old European power.

A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.

Vivid reportage from a war at the edge of Europe, between two ancient peoples caught up in great power interests and clashing narratives of home.

An insider's account of the rise and fall of Western business ventures in post-Soviet Russia.

A masterful new biography of North Korea's despotic founding father and his enduring impact on his country today.

A history of an ideology and its tyrannical adherents who stubbornly refuse to go away.

Aristotle claimed that all human beings want to know. Yet our own experience proves that all human beings also want not to know. Today, centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow preposterous prophets; irrational rumours trigger fanatical acts; and magical thinking crowds out common sense and expertise. Why is this? Where does this will to ignorance come from, and how does it continue to shape our lives?In this dazzling exploration of our wish for innocence and ignoranceand its consequences acclaimed essayist and historian of ideas Mark Lilla offers an absorbing psychological diagnosis of the human will not to know. With erudition and brio, Lilla ranges from the Book of Genesis and PlatosDialoguesto Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, revealing the paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves. He also exposes the illusions that this impulse can lead us to entertain: the belief that the ecstasies of prophets, mystics and holy fools will offer access to esoteric truths; the mythology of childrens lamb-like innocence; and nostalgic fantasies of recapturing the glories of vanished, allegedly purer civilisations.

Between the end of the Second World War and the first decades of the twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This book tells the remarkable story of how that came about. Kieran Connell, an historian of Irish and German heritage who grew up in Balsall Heath, inner- city Birmingham, takes readers into multicultural communities across Britain at key moments in their development. He also shines a light on the shifting nature of British racism, revealing the day-to-day effects it hadand still hason ethnic minority groups.Journeying far beyond London,Multicultural Britaindelves into the messy contradictions at the heart of a countrys transition into the diverse society we know today. It highlights the vital role of ordinary people in the making of multicultural Britain, and takes aim at public leaders, from Enoch Powell to Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher, who have too often legitimised racism for their own political ends.In post-Brexit Britain, between Black Lives Matter and anxieties around immigration, how communities and individuals live together remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. Connell offers a fresh perspective on British multiculturalism as a rich and complex lived realitynot simply as a problematic idea.

Suppose you chose seven typical children to represent todays UK. Who would they be? What would they reveal?Seven Childrenis about hidden realities of injustice and hope. In his highly original, thought- provoking new book, inequality writer Danny Dorling constructs seven average children from millions of statisticseach child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket. From the poorest to the wealthiest, Dorlings seven children were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europes most socially divided nation. They turned 5 in 2023, amid a devastating cost- of-living crisis. Their country has Europes fastest- rising child poverty rates, and even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations prevail, and change is possible.Immersive and intimate, this book gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britains most pressing economic, social and political issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the superrich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living, between those two extremes? Who are todays real middle class? And what if tomorrows challenge isnt spiralling inequality, but how to reverse the new trend that leavesallchildren worse off than their parents?

A captivating culinary journey through the West's love-hate relationship with anchovies.

A fascinating portrait of old cosmopolitan Central Europe, and a remarkable woman enduring as evil rises--all through the family belongings hidden in a suitcase.

Can development remake itself for today's world? To do so, it must shed its colonial baggage, embrace diverse voices and prioritise genuine sustainability.

This short history of the Maghreb surveys its development from the coming of Islam to the present day, but with greatest emphasis on the modern period from the early nineteenth century onwards.

A history of the perennial struggle between Amhara and Tigray for hegemony in Ethiopia.

An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of--because the perpetrators were caught in time.

The gripping story of a turning point in global affairs, as politicians belatedly awaken to serious systemic threats.

Today, genocide has almost entirely lost its meaning. Either its occurrence is denied into oblivion, or its frequency allows it to fall on stone-deaf ears in a world on fire. As our newsfeeds inundate us with the agony of the Palestinians, the Rohingyas, the Uighurs and a seemingly endless list of minority, marginalised communities, where does one draw the line? Even the UN Convention on Genocide has its own murky past. While endless committees and talking heads get lost in the technicalities, we experience global numbness in the face of others' suffering, and genocide becomes no more than a word whose definition can be negotiated. This issue of Critical Muslim asks: can we learn the lessons demanded by our past; and can we find a new, open approach to this destructive devastation, for the sake of all our futures?About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews.

To be human is to desire. But often desire finds itself in opposition to values and virtues. Giving in to one's desires denies one moral righteousness; in the Islamic tradition, humanity, tested by selfish wants, must temper and tame our earthly desires through faith. In this issue of Critical Muslim, desire will be given an updated analysis for our contemporary world. Being a good person must consist of a life devoted to more than subduing desire. And why must desire be the bogeyman? Is it any of our business? Postmodernism says to let people choose what they desire and pursue. Yet temperance has value in a neoliberal world of opulent consumption. There must be a way to find not only the beauty in our desires, but also the ethical alternatives available for our own and our planet's wellbeing. Or is this having our cake and eating it too?About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews.

A new history of modern Turkey, focussing on its fifty-year retreat from Kemalist secularism.

Reveals how a generation of Muslim scholars, intellectuals and civil servants adapted and adopted ideas of modernity in colonial interwar Zanzibar.

A historically grounded account, from de Gaulle onwards, of how France's neocolonial influence crumbled in Africa, with devastating and unforeseen consequences.