A vanished world: Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
by Halime Güven Jul 30, 2026 – DAILY SABAH A portrait of Sayyida Salme bint Said, later known as Emily Ruete. (Wikipedia Photo) The first known autobiography by an Arab […]
Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Tanzanian writer, the first Black winner since Toni Morrison, was honored for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.” Nobel Literature Prize Honors Tanzanian Author The […]
East Africa’s forgotten slave trade
Over several centuries countless East Africans were sold as slaves by Muslim Arabs to the Middle East and other places via the Sahara desert and Indian Ocean. Experts say it […]
Behind Africa’s explorers, Muslim empires on the make
How Tripoli, Egypt, and Zanzibar rode 19th-century European expeditions to profit by Dane Kennedy, Boston Globe In June 1857, the British explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke set […]
Trouble in paradise as radical Islam grows in Zanzibar
By Abdallah Bawazir The rising tide of radical Islamism has sparked growing unrest on the idyllic islands of Zanzibar. Daniel Howden reports from Stone Town. Workmen are raising the walls around the Assemblies of God Church on the outskirts of Zanzibar’s Stone Town. Sweating in the heat and humidity, they […]