Travel writer Tharik Hussien joins us to talk about his journey in the footsteps of Evliya Celebi, an Ottoman traveller who wrote about his journey through the Balkans in the seventeenth century. Tharik's book, Minarets in the Mountains, challenges perceptions about European views of the Balkans, its relationship to and connection with Islam, and general Western exoticism and 'othering'. He shows how Islam has been largely written out of the historical European story. He also brings an often overlooked destination to life and introduces his family and the perspectives of his daughters, in particular, to the journey.

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