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N.A. Mansour

N.A. Mansour is a historian of books, art and religion. She's worked in museums and archives as a professional, as well as an editor at Hazine. She also writes on food, culture, Islam and history, with essays in Contingent, Eater, The Counter and more.

Postcards

A Postcard From Atlanta

By N.A. Mansour | May 28, 2023

I cannot shut off my “Museum Brain.”

Mailbag

Who Do Historians Write For?

By N.A. Mansour | May 28, 2022

“I want my reader to enjoy reading it as much as I want to challenge myself writing it.”

Shorts

Because of Palestine

By N.A. Mansour | May 28, 2021

It makes them uncomfortable that I know these things.

Field Trip

Catholic Library, Muslim Books

By N.A. Mansour | May 28, 2020

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.

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