As soon as we started seeing the signs for Mostar on the outstretched Bosnian highway, my heart skipped a beat. We...
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One of my main intentions, actually probably my only intention, when visiting the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, was to make my way...
“O Mosque of Cordoba! For thy existence and thy glory thou art indebted to love, to the tender passion that...
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Omar Rais speaks to Alyssa Ratkewitch, a third generation Tatar Muslim living in Brooklyn and the vice president of the board at the historic Brooklyn Mosque. Also joining the conversation is travel writer, journalist and broadcaster, Tharik Hussain who specialises in the Muslim heritage of the West. Together they explore the migratory roots of Brooklyn’s Tatar community, the longest serving mosque in the United States, and discuss the identity-shaping of Muslims in the West.
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According to a 1925 guidebook, Lisbon is “a fair vision in a dream, clear-cut against a bright blue sky which the...
As it gradually begins to dawn on consumers that food doesn’t magically appear on supermarket shelves, the histories of those...
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