Foreign Policy Archive.org From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, the mosque is a quiet place. It mainly serves…
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Perhaps the West’s most original geopolitical thinker, Emmanuel Todd recognizes the centrality of religion in all societies, even (especially?) “post-religious” ones like today’s West. His work, which convincingly predicts the defeat and fall of the West, raises the question for Muslims: Which Islamic alternative (Murad Hoffman) should we work for as the Western influence over Muslim-majority societies recedes? The four…
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By Kevin Barrett From where I live it costs seven dollars and fifty cents to get to Spain. Starting at home in Saidia, Morocco, I spent a dollar on a petit taxi ride to the grand taxi station; five dollars for an hour-long grand taxi ride to Nador; fifty cents for a city bus to the border of the Spanish…
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By N.A. Miller | April 5, 2025 | Classy Arabic Al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭaylī, whose nickname means “the blind man of Tudela,” was actually born in Seville to parents from Tudela, in present-day Navarre in northeastern Spain. He was born blind and died relatively young, around the age of 40. He was a professional poet, and most of his ouevre is panegryic…
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By: Anthony Dennis | May 17, 2025 | smh.com.au Flush with incredible protected ruins, bustling souks and beautiful coastal villages, this vibrant North African capital has a rich and turbulent history. Read the full article
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Convivencia interview #4 with Abu Isa in Cordoba We’re here at the Grand Mosque in Córdoba with Abu Isa talking about convivencia. Abu Isa, do you think that convivencia—good relationships between different groups such as Jews, Christians, and Muslims—is possible in today’s world? 100% and absolutely. I think we are stronger together and we can learn from each other. And…
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By: Kevin Barrett | June 24, 2025 | kevinbarrett.substack.com We are traveling the length of historic al-Andalus, from Barcelona to Zaragoza to today’s Andalusia (southern Spain) asking ordinary people about convivencia. What is convivencia? It’s a friendlier term for “coexistence” that was originally used to describe the strikingly positive relationship between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities in Islamic Spain a.k.a.…
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Convivencia interview #2: Zaragoza, Spain. We are traveling the length of historic al-Andalus, from Barcelona to Zaragoza to today’s Andalusia (southern Spain) asking ordinary people about convivencia. What is convivencia? It’s a friendlier term for “coexistence” that was originally used to describe the strikingly positive relationship between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities in Islamic Spain a.k.a. Al-Andalus. Today’s interviewee is…
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By Xu Lin | May 30, 2025 | China Daily China and Tunisia have created an enduring legacy through vibrant artistic and trade exchanges across centuries, Xu Lin reports. China’s over 5,000-year civilization, with its diverse elements that have formed a unity, and Tunisia’s layered heritage — rooted in indigenous Berber traditions and overlaid with Phoenician, Roman and Arab influences…
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By: Kirti Sharma | Date: June 2, 2025 | Jagranjosh.com Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day – 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as “Arabic numerals,” that they were developed in the Arab world. This is a popular myth!…
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