New Podcast Series “Digital Al-Andalus: On the Record” – Imaginations of Al-Andalus and How History Returns in the Present

By Cristina Moreno Almeida and Hanan Natour. What do we really mean when we speak of “Al-Andalus”? Was medieval Iberia a model of coexistence, a lost paradise, or something far more complex? How do historians find people and ideas that barely appear in the official record? And how do political and cultural actors today reach back to remember, romanticise, or instrumentalise the medieval past for…