The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi and a language justice feature

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

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

and his poet's capacity to produce stunning visual/aural images

and a Swiftian deadpan

an avowal for immigrants

The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi and a language justice featureThe 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