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Nushin Arbabzadah

Nushin Arbabzadah grew up in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. She studied at Hamburg and Cambridge universities, and has edited an anthology of contemporary journalistic writing from the Islamic world, No Ordinary Life: Being Young in the Worlds of Islam.

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Discovering Christmas in Kabul

A childhood promise of Christmas magic in Afghanistan is unexpectedly fulfilled years later.

Multiculturalism in medieval Islam

Islam, so often seen as the west’s “other” and depicted as a monocultural and intolerant religion, itself has centuries of experience of hosting and regulating a diverse cultural mosaic. Nushin Arbabzadah gazes through history’s mirror.

An Afghan perspective on the British monarchy

After childhood images of Iran and Afghanistan, the transcendental ordinariness of the British Queen gave Nushin Arbabzadeh a fresh perspective on monarchy.