The celebratory mood at the Venice Biennale 2024 was muted by the pressing reality of current wars in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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Postnormal times thinking sees the speed, scale, scope, and simultaneity (4Ss) of our globalised, digital, networked environment drive increasingly complex, contradictory, and chaotic (3Cs) accelerating change.
A short story by Amenah Ashraf.
A short story by Alev Adil.
Two Poems by Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
Three poems by Kabir.
In 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered an address before an assembly of carefully selected academics at Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital. The speech was a diplomatic attempt to stitch the frayed seams of the relationship between France and Africa.
‘Home, grief, deracination’ – here is the trio of themes running through journalist Tom Parfitt’s debut book High Caucasus.
We are at a civilisational turning point. This is the message in a literary celebration of longtermism by one of its most visible advocates.
Vellum Publishing is a new independent publisher based in Manchester, currently launching an intriguing list of poetry and non-fiction with a focus on internationalist and Muslim voices.