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Richard Doughty is editor of AramcoWorld.

Articles by Richard Doughty

Africa's First City of Islam

Africa's First City of Islam

Written by Ana M. Carreño Leyva
Photographed by Richard Doughty
Founded on a plain between sea and hills in the year 670 CE, Kairouan became a capital of dynastic power and a cultural beacon, the center for the spread of Muslim Arab influence through North Africa and southern Europe— not only in religion, but also in architecture, medicine, education, law and more.
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A Museum of the World

A Museum of the World

Written by Ana M. Carreño Leyva
Photographed by Richard Doughty
Ten years in the making and the first universal museum in the Arab world, the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi sets out a dozen themed galleries to tell cross-civilizational stories about the relationships of cultures—in every land, from the earliest settlements to today—that informed and inspired each other along their myriad respective quests of expression and beauty.
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FirstLook: Learning from the Pattern-Masters

FirstLook: Learning from the Pattern-Masters

Photo by Richard Doughty
Video by Richard Doughty and Johnny Hanson

Welcome to FirstLook, which kicked off in the November/December 2015 print edition. We start in Fez, Morocco, as blue dusk settles in minutes after maghrib, or the sunset call to prayer. Find all FirstLook images amid others @aramcoworld on Instagram, as well as on our Facebook page.

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