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Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 26, 2020 11:31 - 4 Comments
Books | Review | ‘Chav Solidarity’ by D. Hunter
"A guide and a balm, a meditation on the politics of survival and an appeal to extend our arms towards each other". Chav Solidarity, by D. Hunter, is a book that must be read, writes Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 19, 2020 8:43 - 0 Comments
Books | The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity by Darryl Li
If the global War on Terror has taught us anything, it is that it is very easy to write badly about Muslims, particularly in the context of conflict. Darryl Li's ‘The Universal Enemy’ stands as a salutary antidote to so much that passes for scholarship on the subject, writes Asim Qureshi in his review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 5, 2019 15:31 - 1 Comment
Books | A resonant poetry of survival: Shareefa Energy’s Galaxy Walk
The poems in 'Galaxy Walk', Shareefa Energy’s debut collection, come together to form a picture of a woman whose writing has offered her a way to live in a traumatic and complicated world, writes Rachel Seoighe in her review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, November 15, 2019 11:25 - 0 Comments
Books | Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba
'Palestine +100', a landmark collection of science fiction short stories, offers a fresh and compelling portraits of the Palestinian experience, writes Asim Qureshi.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 31, 2019 18:17 - 0 Comments
Books | Here to Stay, Here to Fight: On the history, and legacy, of ‘Race Today’
From 1974 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the Race Today Collective, was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Leila Hassan, Robin Bunce and Paul Field, co-editors of a new anthology bringing together some of the Collective's key texts and contributors, offer an overview of Race Today's 15-year history.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:03 - 1 Comment
Books | Review | ‘Protest: Stories of Resistance’
The 'Protest: Stories of Resistance' anthology demonstrates, through vital and timeless narratives, the enduring power of resistance, writes Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson
Doug Murphy’s Nincompoopopolis is a suitably and rewardingly vicious, neat précis of the political and architectural legacies of Johnson in his time in power in London, argues Alex Baker.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, November 26, 2017 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, by Hamja Ahsan
Shy Radicals by Hamja Ahsan is a quietly hilarious demolition of late capitalism’s invasion of our senses, time and privacy, writes Rachel Seoighe in her review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, November 12, 2017 10:47 - 0 Comments
Books | An Anthem of a Revolution That Was — A Revolution That Will Be: ‘The City Always Wins’ by Omar Robert Hamilton
Omar Robert Hamilton's debut novel is a beautifully crafted examination of the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath, writes Ahmed Masoud.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 15, 2017 18:17 - 0 Comments
Books | ‘Mr Dickens and his Carol’: The Ghosts of Dickens, and Grenfell
Asim Qureshi reviews Samantha Silva's new novel, 'Mr Dickens and his Carol', and wonders how Dickens would have felt were he to see Grenfell's mass grave of the impoverished and downtrodden, standing as an edifice to our indifference.
