Author Archives: Sameer Rahim
Hostile takeover—how a corporation conquered India
From the start British imperialism was about loot, not spreading civilisation
The myth of the golden age of reading
Even before the digital age, book-lovers were always prone to distraction
Prospect world’s top thinkers, 2019: the top ten
Mathematician Caucher Birkar won by a landslide—but who else made the top ten?
The world's top thinkers 2019: who we missed
Interestingly, the names conjured were strikingly different from the kind of thinkers voted into our top 10
On the frontline of the war on truth
Fighting fake news could be ever harder than the Cold War
Where does the left’s race problem come from?
Traditionally tolerant, a new form of essentialism has gripped parts of the left
Keeping it in the family—the art of Hirokazu Koreeda
The director casts a humane eye on modern Japan
Asghar and Zahra—fiction extract
When a honeymoon goes wrong
How an early European encounter with Islam broke stereotypes
A new book on the Ottoman Empire's relationship with contemporary Christians reveals a notable degree of cultural exchange and debate
It’s the end of the world as we know it—so don’t feel fine
We can slow down the effects of climate change, if we want to
Robert Alter: "Modern Bible translators have done a wretched job"
Robert Alter's new translation of the Hebrew Bible draws out the literariness of the text. He speaks to Prospect about why he decided to do a new edition, the act of translation, and what the Bible has to say about…
From Iran, with love—an artist preserves a dying tradition
Bita Ghezelayagh's transporting exhibition at Leighton House is worth an hour of your time