With few legal avenues to settle and work in the EU, migrants are forced to work in the trading bloc’s agricultural sector generating billions of euros for its economies. Ahmed Uddin looks at the hidden infrastructure of exploitation. Over 500 years ago living standards and

An opportunity to visit Iraq, specifically Najaf and Karbala provided Ahmed Kaballo with food for thought of how Islamic society does and could work. Last October I was lucky enough to be invited to witness one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the

The accession of Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to the leadership of the Middle East monarchy has plunged the region deeper into conflict and intensified a divisive sectarian narrative, says Hafsa Kara-Mustapha When King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died in January 2015 there was a sense

The blight of sectarianism has its roots in a chauvinism that has permeated our understandings of Islamic history. Eradicating it requires us to challenge these received histories and the language in which they are presented, argues Muhammad al-Asi. Dear committed Muslims, brothers and sisters. As

Provincializing materialist feminism: gender, capital and reproduction in Occupied Palestine In debunking liberal feminism as complicit in neo-liberal regimes of oppression, materialist feminism itself requires scrutiny.  Its own underpinnings when discussed particularly in the light of the occupation of Palestine, finding it as guilty of