The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi an avowal for immigrants

an avowal for immigrants

and a Swiftian deadpan

to the collective – humanity’s ‘bad choices piling up like debts’ – Burns is everywhere concerned with consequence and responsibility

as well as Ellington

and a language justice feature on the hunt for the Gaelic for ‘apricot’

The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi an avowal for immigrantsThe 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