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:...

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...

One year ago, I wrote a blog post exploring an Indian Mughal painting from Rajasthan, ca. 1740, showing a woman with a simple dot design o...

I have a friend who is a musicologist specializing in Sephardic music, and for months we have been trying to arrange for me to henna some of...

The things I do for you, dear readers! This blogpost almost got me thrown out of a museum… But such is the life of a henna researcher. ...

What Do You Mean, No Paisleys? A Short History of Modern Indian Henna Designs I had a great time participating in HennaCon , a conferenc...

I’ve settled back from Morocco but I’m still going through my henna photos… One interesting thing I’d thought I’d post about is the use ...

I’ve just come back from a wonderful vacation on the West Coast. While I was in San Francisco I took a tour of the San Francisco Botanical...

I had a great time talking about Moroccan henna with Kenzi and Nic on the Caught Red-Handed podcast Google+ hangout. We answered questions f...

Inspired by a comment on the last post that one of my readers has been looking at Persian poetry, this month I decided to look at some Persi...