A depiction of Muhammad's 'night journey,' mounted on Burāq and accompanied by angels, traversing the heavens, here shown with all the signs of the zodiac. From a 1665-7 Safavid copy of the Khamsah of Niẓāmī, illustrations by the Turkoman artist Ṭālib Lālā (BL Add MS 6613):

This is exactly what Israel said they would do. They told us, and we armed them. This insanity has to stop.

As Israeli forces kill 4 more journalists in Gaza, research shows more journalists have died there than the US Civil War, WW I + II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslavia wars and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Its taken 18 months & it should have happened long ago, but finally BBC News (UK) has plucked up the courage to write clearly about Israeli War Crimes. RT now before they bow to pressure & retract it. Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Splendid review. One small quibble: British politicians did occasionally say this sort of stuff. Churchill told Cabinet that “We are the greatest Mohammedan power in the world”, incredibly enough.

Very flattered by this review of Shattered Lands - alongside Phil Craig 's new masterpiece - in @englesbergideas by S. I. Rubinstein

"In its Calvino-esque braiding of stories [this] is markedly more ambitious than most debuts... There ought to be a mammoth, epic, television series." New Review of Shattered Lands in the Scotsman: scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

Terrifying news coming out of Ahmedabad. Air India flight AI 171, which was set to fly to London, has crashed shortly after taking off. More than 150 passengers are on board, according to initial reports. We are all praying for their safety.

The Plane crashed into the hostel mess of the BJ medical college. 20 students have been hospitalized. #Ahmedabad

Today we make history together.

Sam Dalrymple "Shattered Lands" is a compelling and important work of history that offers a fresh perspective on the partition of South Asia, highlighting the human stories In hand the book

RAVE REVIEW for Shattered Lands in the The Guardian by Nishad Sanzagiri

Read the full article here theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

After watching a screening of Basement Films' remarkable documentary, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a profoundly moved Gary Lineker says, "The BBC should hang its head in shame" for censoring the film.

Do not miss watching this remarkable and profoundly moving film- available from Channel 4 & Zeteo

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Out in September: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the dazzling new novel from Kiran Desai. Here's the cover, featuring artwork by Olivia Fraser, whose luminous mandalas turning subtly out of sync capture the novel’s restless beauty, its geographic expanse, its cosmic disarray.

Leslie Young ✡︎ Hi Leslie, I'm a historian of Palestine. I spent 15 years of my life studying the history of the 6 paragraphs of propaganda you shared above. Virtually every sentence in this post is misinformation. Let's dive in: 1. "Palestine was largely a wasteland." During the last few

Oh wow! Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize 19 years after The Inheritance of Loss won. What a staggering return! (Out in September!)