C Scott Jordan suggests that fire has become so hyper-normal that we are almost numb to it, Salma Khalid takes a philosophical and historic walk through fire, Ebrahim Moosa delves into some classic Arabic texts, Taiwo Adepetun is burned by Al, Anonymous is caught between two blazing worlds, Wietske Merison is overwhelmed by the flames of burning oil, Mikail Eldin dodges bombs and bullets in Grozny, Robin Yassin-Kassab finds himself under fire in Ukraine, Christopher Burr Jones thinks fire is a Faustian bargain, Chandrika Parmar recovers lost memories in Temple fires, Qalandar Bux Memon discovers his (‘Must, Must’) Qalandari roots, Alev Adil remembers her childhood in coup and war ridden Cyprus, Naomi Foyle burns some candles, and our list of ten contemporary self-proclaimed arsonists.
Also in this issue: Lucien Zell visits Cairo, Carolyn D’Cruz flips through an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family, Kostas Maronitis digs into the deep petro-state, Anushka Chaudhuri discovers the ambiguity of Bangladeshi identities, Philip T Sumner reads the family history of Mishal Husain, a short story by Adil Thanveer, and poems by Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Steve Noyes, and Imran Haq.
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