The Azanian Sea

Among the many gems of description in T.E. Lawrence's classic book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is the following excerpt on a feast pre...

Jonathon Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201...

There is a reason Toshihiko Izutsu's book is available through Islamic booksellers online: its a great introduction to what is at stake ...

On the Zanj: Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people...

Pambazuka - Arab women issue a call to Arab Heads of State

I would like to thank Ms. Chappel and Ms. Abdullah for uploading these photos to the Facebook group: "Zanzibar and Oman." Subhanal...

One of the best documentaries about the Darfur conflict, Darfur's Skeleton moves beyond all the 'genocide' talk of 'experts...

From the BBC Unveiling Zanzibar's unhealed wounds By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown I often went to Zanzibar as a child, with my mother, who was b...

B.E: You make an important point about the different kinds of people involved in Islamic slavery. Of course, we are really looking at just...

Listen to what Mark Horton has to say, about how the British tried to make the history of the Swahili an 'Arab' history. Finally, Ba...

As part of an Envirornmental History class for the esteemed Dr. John McNeill, I am trying to integrate an ecological and envirornmental focu...

My research looks at the influence of Swahili culture on Oman. This research is extremely relevant at the present time. The Arab/African dic...

While the World sees only Arab-African conflict in Darfur, pockets of amity thrive unnoticed. Christian Science Monitor by Heba Aly Dongola,...

The first impressions of Zanzibar (at least if you come by the ferry from Dar es Salaam) are almost inevitably of the relentless activity of...