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:...

In our last blogpost , we explored the possible evidence for hennaed drumheads in medieval Spain. In the end, while there are many images of...

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...

I’ve been swamped with thesis research and planning my upcoming move (!) so I apologize if posts have not been coming as regularly. My thesi...

We're taking a break from henna-related posts to compile some resources about haroset , a traditional Passover food. We'll be back t...

I am super excited to be co-presenting at a weekend conference in NYC, Feb. 28-Mar. 1, devoted to Moroccan henna (and tickets are still ...

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...

Welcome to 2015, and welcome to our 50th blogpost! I’ve had a great time sharing my research with all of you and look forward to much more...

I often get emails asking me what to wear to a henna ceremony, or if I provide traditional costumes for henna ceremonies. I don’t yet (I wis...

I am in the middle of writing another blogpost, but I was shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Rabbi Gil Marks , a prominent schol...

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’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 ...

It feels strange, but my Moroccan summer adventure is over, seemingly as fast as it begun. I learnt so much and I’m so grateful to have had ...

With only a week left in Morocco, I'm trying desperately to cram in as much henna as I can. I can't believe my time here has gone by...

There's only so much information you can get from asking women on the streets about their henna, so I decided to go to the source and ...

Ramadan mubarak sa'id ! The blessed month of Ramadan has arrived with a bang (literally — they fire the city cannons), the fast has be...

It seems I may have spoken too soon about the weather… The past few days have actually been much cooler than when I first arrived, mostly ...

Arriving in Fes, I was hit with a wall of heat when I walked off the train from Casablanca. While Casa was certainly warm, Fes is pretty h...