Arabic Travel Dictionary

Download our free Arabic Travel Dictionary, print it out, make a booklet, stick the Arabic phrasebook into your back pocket - and you're good to...

Berber Motifs

There are more than a hundred thousand Berber motifs. Distributed for millennia throughout North Africa, they are everywhere: on murals, paintings,...

Catalan Atlas

The Catalan Atlas is the most important Catalan map of the medieval period (drawn and written in 1375). It was produced by the Majorcan cartographic...

Explore: Weddings

A group of couples in Taiwan, a Zulu king and Swazi princess in South Africa, a priest and child bride in Ethiopia—National Geographic has been...

French Travel Dictionary

Download our free French Travel Dictionary, print it out, make a booklet, stick the French phrasebook into your back pocket – and you're good...

The Eye of the Sahara

One day I was sitting at my laptop, getting bored at home and looking randomly at Google Maps, when something interesting caught my eye: I noticed a...

Walls in the Desert

– I’ve heard there is a wall there – I said.
– What wall? – Husam replied. – It's all just propaganda. There is no wall. I asked him about...