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Origins of couscous

S. Doukalli

The culinary historian Lucie Bolens is said to have described primitive jars of couscous found in tombs dating back to the reign of the Be...

Volubilis, a Berber-Roman Heritage

S. Doukalli

The archaeological site of Volubilis ( Walīli / ⵡⴰⵍⵉⵍⵉ in Arabic and Amazigh) in Morocco offers us a great overview of Moroccan civiliz...

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The Almohads at the Conquest of Constantinople

S. Doukalli

As early as 1190CE, the Almohad Sultan Yaqub al-Mansur would try to take Constantinople, almost 300 years before the Ottoman Empire. It is a...

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