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Aga and AGO

On a recent weekend I had a day-long layover in Toronto (deliberately). I took the opportunity to check out a couple of museums there: the Aga Khan museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Aga Khan may be best known in Canada for controversy [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/

Assorted Links (Fall 2017)

Last week I was in a conference in Chicago [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_-cUdmdWgU]. I plan to write about it later this month, but for this week I just wanted to share some miscellaneous links (mostly related to things I've written about previously) that I&

From the First Caliphs to the First World War

I wanted to understand the history of the Middle East better, so I made the following timelines. Hopefully some readers will find them informative, too. Introduction If you turn on the news, you can see ancient cities like Aleppo, Sana'a, and Mosul [https://ricochet.com/381637/the-history-of-mosul/] being

"A Winter in Arabia"

This post is a review of the book A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Dame Freya Stark [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Stark]. It was published in 1940 and describes a months-long visit she made to the Hadhramaut [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadhramaut] region of

Arabic Calligraphy

I recently got a very cool piece of art. So that's what this post is about. First things first, here it is framed and hanging on my wall: The design is Arabic calligraphy of the word al-Hurriyah (الحرية), meaning "freedom" or "liberty". The artist

Water and Wastewater Vocabulary in Arabic

First of all, my apologies to readers for being late with this post. When I was at the University of Waterloo, I took a couple of Arabic language courses at Renison College [https://uwaterloo.ca/renison/]. I thought it would be a good exercise to look up translations for some