The Dala’il al-Khayrat, a collection of prayers and blessings upon the Prophet...
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Over the course of my life, whenever I visited Pakistan, it was always to visit family in Karachi. For whatever reason, be it safety, time or – lets be real...
While coffee shops are a central element of European culture, (Viennese kaffeehäuser have been deemed an intangible cultural heritage element by UNESCO) Europeans, including Italians and Greeks, owe their rich coffee customs to sharing the Mediterranean with the Arab and African worlds.
Zirrar presents an analysis of modern travel photography using the work of Edward Said and Orientalism. He demonstrates how Orientalist tropes portraying 'natives' are still being used in travel photography today, including in the work of well-known photographers, and endorsed by publications such as National Geographic.
Our last stop on our trip to Kenya lay just off its coast. The Lamu Archipelago, a group of small islands, are situated 350km from Mombasa and bear the traces of...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
Ali Abdelaziz Ben Saad explores the influence of the Ottoman coffee-houses of Tunis and the connections between coffee and spirituality.
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white man in his early 50s wanders into Sarajevo’s Gazi Huzrev Beg Mosque courtyard and half sits, half leans against...
Zara Choudhary on the history of Islam and Muslims in Vietnam and...