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The enduring echoes of Moorish Spain

By Nina Burleigh
New York Times·
12 mins to read

Nina Burleigh explores Spain's Arab influence in an impossibly romantic journey

There is a way through Spain that is all horseshoe arches, keyhole windows and bronze doors carved in Arabic script. It meanders into crenellated forts, Moorish castles overlooking the Mediterranean and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.

As the child of an Iraqi woman and a Swedish-American man, I have always been drawn to places where West and East converge and dissolve into each other. The southern edge

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