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For eight centuries, Jews, Muslims and Christians lived side by side in Al-Andalus, in the south of Spain. Moving between history and today, between reportage and essay, the author looks at that Arab and multicultural past and at how it echoes now: Andalusians who call themselves descendants of the Moors, a region dubbed the new Lampedusa. Coexistence and the meeting of the so-called West with so-called Islam sit alongside fundamentalism, expulsions and the casting out of others. Al-Andalus, she suggests, is a good myth for thinking about Europe today.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

270 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain

First published

2020 by Wydawnictwo Karakter

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788366147522 (original)