Selected articles
Book review: “Sufism & Surrealism” by Adonis
... for the small readership who can engage in the poetics of two cultures situated in two different ages, it is a work of extraordinary richness.
Tehran Museum Talk
But Iran had done well. The Tehran Museum of Modern Art had exchanged an unshowable female nude from its basement in order to reclaim a central piece of its literary and artistic history.
The Exploration of Light: European painters in North Africa, from Delacroix to Klee
The Women of Algiers flickers with jewel-like intensity so that even the shadows are filled with colour.
Exhibition review: Paris Pays Tribute to Tangier, Treasures of the Kingdom of Morocco at Petit Palais, 1999
It is as if the Saracens have at last advanced north from their 732 defeat at Poitiers-Tours and stamped their first architectural mark on Paris.
Stubbs and the Moroccan Lion
It is all the more disturbing, therefore, that George Stubbs of all people should have become obsessed by the image of a lion attacking a horse.