The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi as well as Ellington

as well as Ellington

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

Olivia McCannon on Peter Dale's Tristan Corbiere

and a Swiftian deadpan

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

The Halva-Maker Izz al-Din al-Tazi as well as EllingtonThe 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