Acacia is a political and cultural magazine that brings together writers, thinkers, and artists of the Muslim left to discuss the issues of our time.
Mohammed Mhawish on the algorithm and how its control over views has trained survivors of the genocide in Gaza to make their pain legible
Daleelah Saleh in conversation with author Laila Lalami on her novel, The Dream Hotel, a work of speculative fiction that contemplates what happens when the state can surveil dreams and use them for predictive policing
Fatoumata Bah on how AI is reorganizing the way Islamic authority is mediated and contested, from state-backed AI systems issuing fatwas in the UAE, to the proliferation of TikTok scholars
New poetry from Hanif Abdurraqib and Fatimah Asghar