... feels a direct witness to the fall of Andalusia to the Spanish and its aftermath, the fall of Cairo to the Ottomans and its aftermath and the fall of Rome to the Lutherans. Globalization and the "global village" (Maalouf, 1992) and easy travel may have made the world smaller in our time, for Hassan Al Wazan too, nearly 600 years ago traveling the globe and fitting in was a way of life. The book's characters are from the late 1400s, but you would ... . It reads like a history lesson, a travel essay, and a novel wrapped up into one. Hearing the Alhambra Palace described as a place of life,...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate