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Money talks in Polyp’s cartoon.

Maria Golia recalls why part of her Egyptian education involved learning how to break the rules.

Facts, figures and a brief history of life in Guinea.

Syed Tajammul Hussain’s artful approach to Qur’anic verses.

Our profligate use of deadly chemicals is coming back to haunt us, writes Zoe Cormier.

Anthony Dias ponders the purpose of the hunger strike.

Motlhalefi Mahlabe photographs slums in a South African township.

Budding photographers, step right this way...

Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the 'whodunnit' aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.

An album with a range of references stretching from a lazy Delta blues to the yearnings of Urdu devotionals. By Najma Akhtar and Gary Lucas.

A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories

Guitars blast, synthesizers go mad and a group of gospel harmonizers strain for the heavens as sitar strings twang. By Cornershop

Books and websites for further reading on Islam.

Where did the controversial idea of the ‘Islamic state’ come from? Ziauddin Sardar traces its origins.

The facts and figures of Islam