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Author Giulia Paoletti’s Portrait and Place puts historical Senegalese photography in a fresh global context.

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman trace mango’s cultural and culinary significance around the world.

From Mali to Tanzania, historian Stéphane Pradines traces a thousand years of Islamic architecture that forces us to rethink what we know about Africa’s past.

From Cairo to Khartoum to Casablanca, this volume traces how African artists have shaped—and reshaped—modern art over the past century.

When George Reisner died in 1942, he did so surrounded by ghosts—not just the pharaohs he’d unearthed but the stacks of unpublished notes that entombed his legacy.

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 classic is given new life, as Abirached’s graphic novel blends Lebanese artistry with the late author’s timeless wisdom.

Known for her all-female kitchen at London’s Darjeeling Express, Asma Khan transforms her new cookbook into a memoir, steeped in nostalgia.

Author Eduardo Manzano Moreno gives life to a court scribe’s observations of Córdoba to offer a rarely explored view of the era

Jane Chick’s 2024 study on enigmatic Libyan mosaic bridges Late Antiquity Roman and early ecclesiastical art.

In 1516, Ottoman Sultan Selim I entered Damascus clean-shaven. What followed changed Arab-Turkish relations for 400 years.

The painstaking work to recover history—one page at a time—is on brilliant display in this collection of essays focusing on early Arabic, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Sogdian manuscripts.