Gerald Zarr

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Gerald Zarr ([email protected]) is a writer, lecturer and develop-ment consultant who lived and worked overseas as a US For-eign Service officer for more than 20 years. He is the author of a cultural guidebook on Tunisia and numerous articles on the history and culture of the Middle East.

Articles by Gerald Zarr

Montpellier’s Multicultural Medicine

Montpellier’s Multicultural Medicine

Founded in the 10th century in southern France, Montpellier grew on commerce and knowledge. In the 12th century, Christian, Muslim and Jewish scholars opened what is today Europe’s oldest continuous school of medicine.
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The Shampooing Surgeon of Brighton

The Shampooing Surgeon of Brighton

He wrote the first book in English by an author of Indian origin and opened London’s first Indian restaurant, but he is remembered most along England’s south coast for his therapeutic steam baths.

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How The Middle Eastern Irrigation Ditch Called Acequia Changed The American Southwest

How The Middle Eastern Irrigation Ditch Called Acequia Changed The American Southwest

When Spanish settlers came to America’s Southwest in the late 1500s, they brought a much older irrigation practice that both distributed water and organized communities: the acequia. Today, nearly 1,000 of them are still flowing.
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