Acclaimed cookbook author Salma Hage grew up in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in Northern Lebanon.

International travel in 2020 went from a luxury enjoyed by some to an impossibility endured by all. British travel writer and journalist Matthew Teller witnessed his livelihood become grounded more abruptly than most.

With its rose windows and soaring, pointed arches, Gothic architecture is a crowning achievement of medieval Western Christendom but not, writes Oxford-educated Arabist Diana Darke, an independently developed one.

In Arts of South Asia: Cultures of Collecting, coeditors Allysa B. Peyton and Katherine Ann Paul draw us into the personal, institutional and political dynamics surrounding objects that have journeyed from South Asia—India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan—to museums abroad and, in one case, undergone repatriation.

Writer Anissa M. Bouziane’s heritage in Morocco reflects in her...