In 1879, when presenting a paper on female suffrage, Louisa Bigg told her audience that, “An Eastern traveler, struck with...
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In 1861, Egyptian army engineer and surveyor, arrived in the Hijaz by train. He had with him a large wet...
The Dala’il al-Khayrat, a collection of prayers and blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ has been recited in homes and...
“The camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions, freeing the photographer from any responsibility...
“When we speak of ‘shooting’ with a camera, we are acknowledging the kinship of photography and violence.” Teju Cole This visual essay...
As soon as I stepped out of the taxi I knew I had chosen the wrong time of day. Without...
Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain is published by Bradt Guides. It has been Longlisted for The Ballie Gifford...
Zara Choudhary on living exhibitions or human zoos, that were commonplace in major cities in Europe and North America in...
Take a look at this photograph. Three women sit on a rug on the floor. All of them wear ‘traditional’...
Zara Choudhary on visiting the Companions (Sahaba) of Jordan Memory is a fickle thing; clear one minute, hazy or gone...
This is going to be the sort of messy opinion piece that I usually hate to read; it will present...
A new documentary, 'Malcolm X and the Sudanese', looks at the role of Ahmed Osman in the life of Malcolm X. Osman, a Sudanese development economist, first met Malcolm by chance at Muhammad’s Temple #7 in Harlem in the summer of 1962. The film, directed by Sophie Schrago and written and produced by Hisham Aidi, follows Osman, now in his late seventies, as he returns to Harlem 55 years after the death of Malcom X.