Visitors can wander through maze-like streets, where shops, markets, and traditional houses sit alongside huge palaces.

Gurnah’s own history is filled with complex, grey areas, having grown up in the cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic Sultanate of Zanzibar, at the time a British protectorate. His mother tongue is Swahili, ...

Whether at a wedding feast, or entertaining the Sultan of Zanzibar, Siti was accompanied by a violin, Arabian oud or lute, a drum and tambourine. Culture Musical Club violinist Khamis Shehe She ...

The writer on Primo Levi and his grandchildren’s art. By New Statesman The British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in the former Sultanate of Zanzibar, present-day Tanzania, and moved to the ...

She also commended Zanzibar’s recent initiatives for their vital role in ... She further emphasised that, under the guidance of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council ...

She also commended Zanzibar’s recent initiatives for their vital role in ... She further emphasised that, under the guidance of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council ...