I just returned from a brief trip to Berkeley to celebrate the opening of a museum exhibition on Moroccan Jewish art that I helped research:...

From My Files, week 3! This week we're going back in time to find the earliest record of henna... Where and when did it begin — India? A...

From My Files, week 2! Let's keep the momentum going. Building off of last week's post , which featured a genipa fruit in a 17th c...

It's been a while since my last blog. The truth is that I've been very busy with my doctoral program and I haven't had time to r...

The question of henna use in China has come up many times in my research, and I finally decided to address it... My obvious hesitation is t...