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...Cairo The Mena House Oberoi (oberoihotels.com) is one of the world's exceptional resorts, built in 1869 as a royal lodge for a khedive. The interior is a spectacular blend of Moorish, Ottoman and Coptic design. Most striking is the site?half a mile from the Great Pyramid of Cheops...
CAIRO. The Mena House Oberoi (oberoi hotels.com is one of the world's exceptional resorts, built in 1869 as a royal lodge for a khedive. The interior is a spectacular blend of Moorish, Ottoman and Coptic design. Most striking is the site--half a mile from the Great Pyramid of Cheops...
...Mediterranean Cultures Foundation, a joint project by the regional government of Andaluc?a and Morocco. It has now offered West-Eastern Divan a permanent home in Seville. Barenboim is considering the proposal because the cultures the foundation refers to - Muslim, Jewish and Christian - coexisted in Spain for seven centuries under Moorish rule. After Spain, the East-Western Divan performs in L?beck, Germany this Friday, at Berlin's Deutsche Staatsoper on Sept.1, and at the Congress Palace in Strasbourg on Sept. 2. Last week, while rehearsing, Barenboim halted his young team in a subdued passage of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. "Too much...
...Islam itself is nothing new in Europe. After advancing as far as Tours in 732, the Arabs remained in Spain until 1492, when they were driven from Granada. Over those centuries they bequeathed the Spanish their distinctive pronunciation of the letter J as well as masterpieces of Moorish architecture. The Islamic scholars Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd reintroduced Greek philosophy to the West during the Middle Ages, while Arab mathematicians revolutionized science with the invention of algebra. And when the Ottoman armies pushed west through the Balkan peninsula in the 14th century, they established Muslim communities in Central Europe that...
...Part 4: History Repeats Peter Lamborn Wilson, "Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes...