Nevruz 2018
A somewhat belated 2018 Nevruz celebration – there has been a lot going on here and the blog has fallen behind – I will try and catch up although the […]
Category Archives: My other life
Waiting
A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]
Lussekatter, Abu Hamdan and Walid Ra’ad
Last week I went to Sweden to look around the Manipulate the World exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and to see my sister and her family. My sister and […]
Food Truck, Coincidences and Wild Swimming
I was away last week in Tallinn for work. It was a very interesting workshop with some lovely, clever people. Bizarrely, I unexpectedly bumped into my sister on the flight […]
Little Fears
I don’t have little fears. I have crushing, great, overwhelming ones. The book deadline looms so high that I am working on a Saturday, after having worked all week (so […]
Black Currant Ice Cream
I’m on my way to Nuremberg to give a talk at a conference on the Reformation. I’m talking about Ottoman imaginations of the religious schism between Protestant and Catholics in […]
Four Seasons in One Day
Yesterday I was an academic, beekeeper, shepherd and chicken fancier – I just love that last term! My day mainly consisted of marking final year essays and dissertations, some were […]
Sarajevo
The week before last and over the weekend I was in Sarajevo for work. I was involved with a workshop at the Faculty of Islamic Theology at Sarajevo University working […]
Book
One of the books I have been working on for the past year came out recently and the publisher sent me some copies. I started work on this book about […]
Vernal Equinox
Here at smallholdingdreams we celebrate the Persian New Year (Nev-ruz) otherwise known as the vernal equinox with a review of the past year’s activities (see here and here). However, as […]
