to the collective – humanity’s ‘bad choices piling up like debts’ – Burns is everywhere concerned with consequence and responsibility
and a language justice feature on the hunt for the Gaelic for ‘apricot’
Mansoura Ez-Eldin Excerpt from Maryam’s Maze
and his poet's capacity to produce stunning visual/aural images
Olivia McCannon on Peter Dale's Tristan Corbiere
The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi to the collective – humanity’sThe Halva Maker (in Arabic, Al Halwani, 2022) is a three part novel, contributes through the medium of fiction to this different interpretation of the historical record, in that its third segment, entitled The Kurd, is set during the final years of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt and the attempts by Amaury (Almaric), Crusader King of Jerusalem, to take advantage of the weaknesses of the Egyptian regime. A central figurethe Kurd of the sections titleis