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:...

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. ...

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a member of the SCA ( Society for Creative Anachronism ), although I've been to a few e...

I helped facilitate a wonderful henna ceremony last week for a mixed Yemenite-Moroccan Jewish couple. One of the things we included was the ...

I’m gearing up for the Henna Con conference in California next week — I am, as always, so excited and honoured to be included as a presen...

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...