Announcing Kasurian: A Magazine for the 21st Century
Updates from me on Levantine Press and a new venture: Kasurian, a magazine for the 21st century.
Kasurian: A Magazine for the 21st Century
This Sunday, we launch Kasurian: a Muslim magazine for the 21st century.
As a general-purpose magazine, Kasurian provides a space for writers to contribute to the emergence of a distinct worldview which carries forward the essential truths and traditions of Islam equipped to negotiate and find a new understanding with the 21st century.
Our tagline is curiosity and conviction at the scale of civilisation.
We look at the world with curiosity and conviction at the scale of civilisation: our conviction is that in an uncertain world, certain truths remain unchanged; our curiosity is in exploring how these truths continue to persist into our present—and future.
Our values can and should inform discussion on affairs contemporary and historical, global and local, with curiosity and conviction. But they can only do so once articulated in a familiar manner. Every generation bears the burden to restate age-old truths in the novel concepts, issues, and language of their time. Our objective is to restate these truths in the language of our time.
Kasurian will release a new essay every Sunday, starting on March 2. Over time, we plan to increase our publishing cadence sustainably with demand, explore alternative social mediums, and host in-person events. We are also launching our first physical print issue on a quarterly basis to be released later this year.
Our Spring issue roster:
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Levantine Press
If you missed my last newsletter on Post Apathy, we have also launched a journal called ‘Levantine Press’ looking at foreign affairs, political economy, and state-building efforts in Syria and the wider region.
Some of our recently published work:
So far, we have been publishing on developments in Syria, but we have a line-up of articles waiting on a wider range of topics after Ramadan, e.g.
Turkiye’s burgeoning industrial-military complex and its regional strategy;
Morocco’s empire-building in the Sahel, and industrial developments;
The UAE’s gambit to replace Switzerland and Hong Kong as the world’s premier commodities/trading/tax haven entrepôt;
Tunisia’s Kais Saied and his ‘economic thought’;
And more.
Syria will continue to remain a key focus and we are looking to publish a range of essays, such as ‘State Capitalism with Syrian Characteristics’, how to create new incentives’ architecture for regional integration between neighbouring states, ideas for domestic urban policy and taxation, and beyond that just providing lucid and insightful opinions on contemporary affairs.
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