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A time to sow (by Paul Sims, January/February 2012 ): After a year of revolts in the Arab world, is the region reaping the rewards of freedom? Paul Sims talks to veteran Middle East watcher Fuad Nahdi
The rise of the female suicide bomber (by Mia Bloom, November/December 2011 ): Al-Qaeda leaders are increasingly in favour of using women in terrorist attacks, reports Mia Bloom
Aftershock: 9/11 ten years on (by Stephen Howe, September/October 2011 ): A decade after the destruction of the Twin Towers, the greatest change to the world has been the reinvention of Islam, says Stephen Howe
Egypt's three revolutionary fronts (by Austin Mackell, September/October 2011 ): As Egypt prepares for post-Mubarak elections, could the activists of Tahrir Square be in danger of losing out to more reactionary forces? asks Austin Mackell
Norway’s tragedy calls for perspective (by Kenan Malik, September/October 2011 ): We must respond to extremism by protecting liberal values, argues Kenan Malik
Book review: Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven (by Stephen Howe, May/June 2011 ): Stephen Howe discovers the best book to be written on modern Pakistan
Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota (by Jake Wallis Simons, March/April 2011 ): Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
Book Review: Secret Affairs by Mark Curtis (by Richard Wilson, July/August 2010 ): Did the British government collude with terrorists? Richard Wilson finds out
Mills and minarets (by Paul Sims, May/June 2009 ): The proving grounds for the government's policy to prevent home-grown Jihad are the industrial towns of the North. Paul Sims investigates
Shadow boxing (by Kenan Malik, May/June 2009 ): Cultural relativism and Western chauvinism share one basic principle, claims Kenan Malik: a loss of faith in universal values
From Fatwa to Jihad by Kenan Malik (by Lindsay Johns, March/April 2009 ): Lindsay Johns is impressed by Kenan Malik's take on Rushdie and race
True confessions (by Stephen Howe, March/April 2008 ): What can we learn about extremism from the memoirs of former Islamist radicals? Stephen Howe investigates
Fall out (by Dave Rich, January/February 2008 ): For many years the government has been in bed with the Islamists of the Muslim Council of Britain. But, finds Dave Rich, the tide is turning
Degrees of separation (by Paul Sims, September/October 2007 ): This year, a record number of student activists have been found guilty of terrorist crimes. As the new academic year begins, Paul Sims assesses how universities are dealing with the challenge
Bosphorus Straits (by Ahmet Altan, July/August 2007 ): Ahead of a critical election columnist Ahmet Altan warns that his country’s current political crisis could have fateful consequences for us all
In Denial (by Nick Cohen, May/June 2007 ): Nick Cohen caused a furore when he published "What's Left?", an excoriating attack on what he sees as liberal hypocrisy. Here he answers his critics
Sexual cleansing (by Peter Tatchell, January/February 2007 ): Islamist death squads in Iraq are targeting gays and lesbians, reports Peter Tatchell
Gaza Taliban? (by Editorial Staff, January/February 2006 ): On the eve of the Palestinian elections in 2006, Aya Yasmina May asked what we can expect of Hamas
Insight International (by Matt Cherry, Spring 2002 ): Is Turkey a secular state? asks Matt Cherry
Renovation not demolition (by Austin Mackell, Web Exclusive, June 2011): As Egypt looks ahead to elections, Austin Mackell meets a representative of one of the Islamic parties vying for control
A theocracy on the Nile? (by Austin Mackell, Web Exclusive, January 2012): The triumph of the Islamist parties in Egypt's elections has raised fears of a religious takeover of the state. Austin Mackell reports from Cairo