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Welcome to independent writings on Islamic history, global politics and culture from a Middle East journalist and political analyst turned Islamic historian.

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"kitchen prose and gutter rhymes" - from an Islamic historian, now at Australia's ANU, previously at Oxford and a Reuters reporter across the Arab world