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Moroccan Beauty vs. Hideous Genocide: Can esthetics save the world?

September 17, 2025 AbdulBaseer al-Buhairi

Al-Andalus Tribune Substack By Kevin Barrett, for Al-Andalus Tribune It is said that by the invocation of God (dhikru ‘Lláh) a believer attains such peace of soul that the great terror on Resurrection Day cannot sadden him; how then could he be disturbed by whatever trials and misfortunes may befall him in this world? So be constant in the invocation…

Why, in Egypt, creatives are returning to calligraphy

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025 Editor

By: Moe Elhossieny | Date: May 28, 2025 | Itsnicethat.com In 1922, King Fuad I established the Khalil Agha School for Arabic Calligraphy in Cairo as part of a broader effort to modernise Egypt. Aside from the school’s role in preserving the practice, institutionalising it was a move to assert Egypt’s cultural sovereignty in the wake of independence. Since then,…