Around the World in 80 Trees

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Saudi Film Days

As sunset gilded Los Angeles on November 3, actor Giancarlo Esposito, most recently of Breaking Bad fame, joined a small flock of fellow Hollywood celebrities at Paramount Studios to walk a red carpet in front of an unprecedented backdrop: the logo for Saudi Film Days, the tw...

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Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean

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Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man

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Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World; and The Silk Road: Central Asia Afghanistan and Iran: A

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A Is For Arab

In the summer of 1974, Jack and Bernice Shaheen granted their kids a few hours on Saturday mornings for what was then an American children’s ritual: watching television cartoons, like Popeye the Sailor  and  Bugs Bunny, and staged, cartoonish battles among the charact...

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Tarab and the Art of Music

  Calendar Art    Patterns of Moon, Patterns of Sun Written by Paul Lunde “It is he who made the sun to be a shining glory, and the moon to be a light (of beauty), and measured out stages for her, that ye might know the number of years and th...

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Greetings from Cairo, USA

Greetings from Cairo, Illinois With land made spectacularly productive by the Mississippi River on one side and the Ohio River on the other, one can understand how the southern tip of the state of Illinois came to be known as “Little Egypt.” In 1818 a charter for inco...

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What's so Funny About Lucian the Syrian?

  Lucian the Syrian, or Lucian of Samosata, is thought to have written about 70 surviving works, a majority of which are satirical. He used the Platonic dialogue as his principal format for satire, but he also composed satirical narratives that amount to early comedic nov...

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Muslim Roots, U.S. Blues

Thirty percent: That’s how many of the 10 million West Africans brought to the Americas as slaves may have been Muslims, according to a growing body of research. The intonations, cadences, song themes and instruments of their musical traditions—and their daily prayers and reci...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200604/muslim.roots.u.s.blues.htm 8/24/2020 3:44:49 PM

The Life of Omar ibn Said

About one in five African slaves brought to the New World between 1500 and the mid-19th century was Muslim. Of them, only Omar ibn Said is known to have written a brief autobiography in Arabic. Remarkable for their humble eloquence and generosity of spirit, Said’s handwritten ...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201002/the.life.of.omar.ibn.said.htm 8/24/2020 3:44:01 PM

Indexes : Contributors

The magazine of cultures and connections Current Issue Go Contributors ABBAS, HAMRA History’s Hinge: ‘Ain Jalut , JA 07: 24-33, illustrator ABBOTT, KERRY Lebanon: A Heritage to Restore , MA 94: 32...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/index/Contributors.aspx 8/24/2020 3:39:32 PM

Indexes : Contributors

The magazine of cultures and connections Current Issue Go Contributors ABBAS, HAMRA History’s Hinge: ‘Ain Jalut , JA 07: 24-33, illustrator ABBOTT, KERRY Lebanon: A Heritage to Restore , MA 94: 32...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/index/Contributors.aspx 8/24/2020 3:48:49 PM

2014 Calendar: Domes

2014 Calendar: Domes

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201306/2014.calendar.domes.htm 8/24/2020 3:39:35 PM

Silver from the Sea

Silver from the Sea

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198205/silver.from.the.sea.htm 8/24/2020 3:46:58 PM

In Melville's Shadow

Was American writer Herman Melville reading an orientalist adventure novel by William Starbuck Mayo while drafting his classics Typee and Moby-Dick? Mayo is today remembered only by specialists, but his 1849 Kaloolah was a runaway best-seller that Melville appears to have admi...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201105/in.melville.s.shadow.htm 8/24/2020 3:43:17 PM

Lands That Never Were

World geography includes some mighty strange places that exist only on imagination's maps.

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/196304/lands.that.never.were.htm 8/24/2020 3:43:52 PM

Revolution by the Ream: A History of Paper

A millennium before Chinese papermaking techniques finally reached northern Europe, paper was known along the Silk Road. By 800 it was being manufactured in Damascus; by 1000, paper had eclipsed papyrus in Egypt and established itself as an indispensable tool for commercial, l...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199903/revolution.by.the.ream-a.histo
ry.of.paper.htm 8/24/2020 3:45:34 PM

The Golden Horses of Turkmenistan

The gold-colored

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tan.htm 8/24/2020 3:42:45 PM