The Excellence of the Arabs JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance The beauty captured in these

The beauty captured in these images upends conceptions of colonial photography as a tool of oppression

by historian Jeffrey S

Anton Shammas(University of Michigan)

Aguilar's photos defy the romanticized and melodramatic images by which Native people are often depicted

No need to hop on a plane to the East Coast

The Excellence of the Arabs JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance The beauty captured in theseThe Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identityits merits, values, and originsat a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era. In the cosmopolitan milieu of Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of being Arab had begun to decline. Although his own family originally hailed from Merv in the east, Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society