Compelling Wadi Rum Continues to Drive Jordan’s Film Industry
From a young army officer named T.E. Lawrence and a blue fast-talking genie with a heart of gold, to an earthling left behind on Mars and the home of the Jedi, Wadi Rum – Jord…
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Morocco’s Approach to Religious Extremism: From Jihadism to Pacifism and Reform
Radical Salafism – a religious ideology based on a rigid interpretation of Islamic texts – has spread well beyond the borders where it was first born, in the Hijaz (the west o…
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The Rise of Atheism in Morocco
Atheism in Morocco has recently come into increasing visibility. The possibilities new media has provided for free and uncensored self-expression opened the floodgate for many…
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Romance in Pre-Islamic and Medieval Arabia
Many American historical and contemporary desert romance novels depict the Arab man as an exotically erotic sheikh, devoid of noble and civilized traits. Pre-Islamic and medie…
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The Golden Age of Baghdad: Center of the Abbasid Caliphate and Arab Intellectualism
Baghdad, principal city of the Abbasid Caliphate, was the epicenter of knowledge and learning; a city unrivalled by any other in the Arab world, where scholars from all faiths…
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Tourism and Transition: Edith Wharton ‘In Morocco’ 100 Years On
A century ago, Edith Wharton foresaw many of the horrors of modern “tourism,” which was then a new idea. Yet her pessimism in predicting that the “banalities and promiscuities…
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