“I write because reading has wounded me.”

And the pitfalls of overstating the “shared culture” of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.

One of the Diaspora’s oldest.

Another once-flourishing community comes to an end.

Diarna’s digital museum.

From Ottoman officials to Bahraini ambassadors.

A special relationship between Jews and Christians.

To Memmi national identity was a necessity and Zionism a liberation movement.

Jews, Muslims, and Ghriba.

Rabbi Judah Solomon Alkalai, the Herzl of Sarajevo.

It was popular music then, and can be now.

A lament for a region that is no more.

An online exhibit, ready for your explorations.