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Ep 7: Tharik Hussain

April 14, 2023 • 43 min

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Tharik discusses his award-winning book, Minarets in the Mountains — documenting a road-trip through six European countries — the decolonisation of travel writing, and the rich Islamic traditions still kept alive in a region much ignored.

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