Middle East/North African Lit discussion

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A history of Arabic at Brill in AramcoWorld : Brill’s Bridge to Arabic

http://www.aramcoworld.com/issue/2015...

You did not mention food, so I hope it okay if I post interesting article here. Considering the fact that many of the people of Al Andalus ended up immigrating to the New World, it does relate to Al-Andalus.

How the flavors of the Middle East ended up in Mexico
http://www.splendidtable.org/story/ho...
In particular this quote by Roberto Santibañez: "First we need to remember that the Spain we know now was not the same Spain 600 years ago, because that part of the world was dominated by the Moors, by the Arabs. The Spanish who came in those trips to the Americas were more Moors than the people we now know in Spain. We're very different people who had different techniques for cooking, different ways of eating, and who used all these other spices and stuff that for the past 500 years were taken out of the diets of the Catholicized peninsula."

Jalilah wrote: "You did not mention food, so I hope it okay if I post interesting article here. Considering the fact that many of the people of Al Andalus ended up immigrating to the New World, it does relate to ..."

Interesting Jalilah, thanks for sharing.:)

Everything counts ! thanks for sharing :)

Photos Of Egypt Way Back When That You Have Never Seen Before

http://scoopempire.com/photos-egypt-w...