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Jeddah vs Paris — A Tale of Two Cities

Just to be clear, Paris and Jeddah aren’t even remotely similar. The former is often lauded as the world’s most romantic city and the latter is a hot, desert city on the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Well I guess…

  • Mustafa Samater
  • June 12, 2026
  • Culture, History, Literature

The Greatest Poem of All Time

Muslim Spain has given us a lot to be grateful for. It has given us beautiful cities, luxurious palaces, impressive water systems and many great men. These men were doctors, scientists and writers, and we know many of them by…

  • Mustafa Samater
  • June 12, 2026
  • Cities, History, Urban Planning

Somalia, Howard and The Garden City Project

Ebenezer Howard is considered to be one of the founding fathers of urban planning and with good reason. He invented the garden city, wrote a very important book and his ideas are often revisited as a solution to urban problems…

  • Mustafa Samater
  • June 12, 2026
  • Cities, Culture, History

Córdoba vs Córdoba — A Tale of Two Cities

The Islamic Golden Age is often looked to by Muslims in general and perhaps to Arab Muslims more specifically, as the time when they were great and Western Civilization wasn’t. A time when they were at the forefront of the…

  • Mustafa Samater
  • June 12, 2026
  • Cities, Culture, Travel, Urban Planning

The Path of the Prophet

After two long years shut out of the two holy mosques, Muslims all over the world were finally allowed to return to perform pilgrimage and visit the home of their beloved Prophet this year. Since the arrival of the Covid-19…

  • Mustafa Samater
  • June 12, 2026

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