Piracy
The Tempest’s Islamic Ghosts
The Barbary powers are a non-negotiable part of the Mediterranean who are engaged with and even married into.
21 September 2026
Reading the Maghreb in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Part 2: Networks of Readership
Books are one of the few material items from the past that can be with certainty connected with a particular owner.
3 August 2025
Jewel of a Medieval City: The Cathedral of Palermo and the Multicultural History of Sicily’s Capital
The history of Palermo’s religious centre highlights the ways in which religious and cultural interactions shaped the city of Palermo
1 January 2024
The Adventures of Helen Gloag in Morocco
Helen’s story and life journey are one left in mystery but should be remembered for how it displays the global contact Europe had with the rest of the world.
30 May 2022
Celebrating 100 MEMOs blog posts
Through our blog posts so far we have travelled through space and time, traversing lands both real and imagined
21 March 2022
News and Maghrebi Diversity in Restoration London
Newspapers deserve a place alongside plays, sermons, captivity narratives, ballads and other forms of literature in studies of Anglo-Islamic cultural relations
21 February 2022
A Representation of Algiers in Early Modern London
The staged presence of the 1613 representation of Algiers offered spectators a glimpse into a fictional representation of the Mediterranean world.
12 December 2021