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Celebrating a city’s Islamic-Jewish heritage with abundant detail challenging many stereotypes

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Bayt Dakira, in Essaouira, Morocco, is a Unesco World Heritage Site. It was the only city in the Islamic world where there were more synagogues than mosques. In 1850 it was home to 16,000 Jews, 6,000 Muslims and smaller European and sub-Saharan African communities.

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Celebrating a city’s Islamic-Jewish heritage with abundant detail challenging many stereotypes

Essaouira letter: A Unesco World Heritage Site in Morocco offers a good opportunity to take stock of the many periods and places where these two great cultures generally have coexisted peacefully

2 months ago·Dublin, Ireland

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