The British Museum in London is one of the most visited museums in the world. While it holds the fourth position in terms of annual visitors (4 million in 2022), trailing behind the Louvre in Paris, the Vatican Museums, and the Natural History Museum (London), it is arguably the most significant and influential institution of…
The Basics The story of the East is written by the West, and no one else must write or document it without their blessing. The global travel photography industry is monoplised by a few Western institutions, and none more prestigious than National Geographic. An American organization founded in 1888, it runs annual photography competitions that…
The past decade and a half has seen a growing popularity of authors who write about the East, usually Muslim societies. These writers themselves live in the West, but have taken it upon themselves to explain the East and Islam to others in the West. With one bestseller following another, some writers have become celebrities…
Poetry is dead, at least in the West. The Poetry genre barely moves any books each year but one man is an exception – Rumi. But if you have read Rumi in English, chances are high you have read an interpretation of his poetry that has this Muslim saints faith entirely removed.