CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Animal remains and cooking implements excavated in what was Islamic Granada reveal the history of the Catholic ‘reconquest’ of Spain in the 15th century
DECORATIVE: Andalusian Muslim ataifores, late 11th century. The epigram on the right one means ‘health’
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ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
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PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
GRANADA, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia known as al-Andalus — a territory that once stretched across most of Spain and Portugal. In 1492, the city fell to the Catholic conquest.
In the aftermath, native Andalusians, who were Muslims, were permitted to continue practising their religion. But after a decade of increasingly hostile religious policing from the new Catholic regime, practising Islamic traditions and rituals was outlawed.
But recent archaeological excavations in Granada have uncovered evidence of Muslim food practices continuing in secret for decades after the conquest.
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