Check out the 'Empire' podcast series, if you haven't already:

One of those episodes of @EmpirePodUK where I find myself making notes on my phone while walking dark country paths, narrowly avoiding potholes as @DalrympleWill ...

This was an excellent episode:

That's tonight's listening sorted... @EmpirePodUK has become essential listening @tweeter_anita @DalrympleWill ...

I enjoyed the first episode of the "Empire" podcast from William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. The link is for Spotify, but it's available elsewhere too. This is an underrepresented subject (as discussed in the podcast), so anything that contributes to widening the discourse has to be welcomed. The fact it is done in a lively entertaining ("edu-taining"?) ...

Andrew Deck and Kisha Ravi, Rest of World, Diaspora communities reframe history, one Instagram post at a time, 28 June 2022, "Takweer is just one of dozens of Instagram archive accounts that have risen to prominence in the last several years, which focus ...

Ahmed El Shamsy, New Lines Magazine, The Hoax in the ISIS Flag "Claiming to channel pure Islam, the Islamic State fell for a long-debunked 19th century hoax" An interesting long-read.

Silvia Marchetti, SCMP, How halva, baklava and Turkish delight were baked into Chinese cuisine centuries ago, and the mooncake’s Arabian cousin

"Sweets such as halva and baklava travelled with Muslim traders centuries ...

Cambridge Muslim College, The First English Qur'an

From Cambridge Muslim College:

"Lubaaba Al-Azami tells us more about the first English Qur’an and why it was written, bringing to light that the seeds of our Islamic community in Britian were planted a lot earlier than we realise."

American Scandal, Encore: Iran Contra, Episode 6

This is the final episode of an American Scandal programme (presenter Lindsay A. Graham) on the Iran Contra controversy, which has been quite interesting (as a non-specialist listener). This conclusion ...

Al Jazeera, Muslims in America: A forgotten history

"For more than 300 years, Muslims have influenced the story of the US – from the ‘founding fathers’ to blues music today ..."

"... Professors Mbaye Bashir Lo at Duke and Carl Ernst ...

Arab News, Digital museum brings historic Saudi images back to life
Al-Masmak Digital Museum

"Omar Murshid, who set up Al-Masmak Digital Museum a decade ago, has been painstakingly transforming old black-and-white photographs ...