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...

I recently met a local Toronto historian and artist, Teresa Casas , who is working to reconstruct the visual and social atmosphere of Toront...

With all the terrible news coming out of Iraq these days I thought I’d take a departure from my research on Jewish henna and North Africa to...

We got a question on our Facebook page from one of our fans which was so interesting that it deserved its own blogpost! (Note for all of yo...

In looking through some statistics for my blog, I discovered that seven people have found my blog by searching “beautiful Ethiopian women....

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...