Renovatio: Signs for Our TimesThe Quran states, I will deflect from My signs those who are unjustly overbearing on earth. Even if they saw every sign, they would not believe in them. And even if they saw the right way they would not take to it, while if they saw the path of error they would take to it. This is because they have repudiated Our signs and been heedless of them. In this issue, our writers reflect on the wondrous signs that pervade the cosmos and ourselves. Their

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the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective