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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

Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports in this extended version of the article which appeared in the October 2009 issue.

Hadani Ditmars calls for a return to Islam’s spirit of democracy and pluralism.

Nick Harvey reports on the position of the Hmong – both inside Laos and the bleak refugee camps of Thailand.