Dawn of Narrative: Pre-Arabic Roots
A journey into the real origins of the Arabic novel — from pre-Islamic oral poetry and One Thousand and One Nights to the maqamat, Sufi literature, and the nineteenth-century Nahda.
Two Words That Open a Heart | The Small Language of the Big Traveler
The closing article of the series — why two words in the local language do what no translation app can. A pocket language guide for every destination: Vietnam, Albania, Georgia, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Romania, Morocco.