The Night Will Have Its Say

The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History shows how the 13th-century Andalusi palace complex in Granada, modern Spain, generates often conflicting meanings at the same time—meanings actively constructed and sometimes misread. Edhem Eldem, an Istanbul-based history professor, traces its role in shaping social and cultural identities across imperial Europe, Arab North Africa and Ottoman Türkiye from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

By tracing ritual instead of commerce, anthropologist Ute Röschenthaler shows that the story of tea in West Africa involves multidirectional routes and local agency.