Through the adventures of a wise, courageous traveler, this excellent historical novel re-creates the era when the Moors were expelled from Spain, and much of North Africa and southern Europe was in ...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading “The Labyrinth of the Lost” by the creative and insightful French-Lebanese author Amin Maalouf. Having immigrated to France in the 1970s, Maalouf earned his place among ...

Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...