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

In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

THE sun-soaked archipelago of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa should be your next holiday destination if you want a ...

THE sun-soaked archipelago of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa ... Christ Church Cathedral — the oldest church in East Africa, and the Sultan's Palace. Interestingly, Stone Town is also ...

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, ...

On an official mission to Tanzania, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay announced a strengthened partnership between UNESCO and the Zanzibar ...

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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 ...