theeconomist: Putting on the West’s first big exhibition about the haj has been a challenge. The British Museum had to deal with 40 individual lenders from the Netherlands to Timbuktu, numerous different government ministries in Saudi Arabia and a nervous Saudi embassy in London. The effort has paid off. Beautiful. Exhibitions like this will decrease Islamaphobia. Hopefully. But what’s important is that the Middle East is co-operating with the West and more channels are being opened.

theeconomist:

Putting on the West’s first big exhibition about the haj has been a challenge. The British Museum had to deal with 40 individual lenders from the Netherlands to Timbuktu, numerous different government ministries in Saudi Arabia and a nervous Saudi embassy in London. The effort has paid off.

Beautiful. Exhibitions like this will decrease Islamaphobia. Hopefully. But what’s important is that the Middle East is co-operating with the West and more channels are being opened.

(via reuters)

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