From Telegram messages sent in January by Muhammad Sultan, who lives in Gaza, to his sister Enas Sultan, who lives in Norway. Translated from the Arabic by Dalia Taha. Enas,…
From The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, a fourteenth-century encyclopedia by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, an Egyptian scholar. The book was published this month by Penguin Classics. Translated from…