It is perhaps in Spain that the personification of the black as demonic threat first entered the consciousness of medieval Christian Europe. In this image the black Moor takes center stage in a ...

Elda, Spain – Wearing a fake plastic animal ... Aroca spend two hours a day transforming 15 men into Moors with red, white and black faces. Elda, like scores of other towns in southeastern ...

The 19th-century African-American actor Ira Aldridge, depicted here in the title role, was the first black ... of Moors has been used to describe alternatively the reign of Muslims in Spain ...

This week marks the anniversary of the end of nearly 700 years of African Muslim rule over Spain, Portugal and Southern France. Four hundred and eight years ago today King Phillip III of Spain ...

The Arabic numeral system was transmitted to Europe via Spain. And while the rest of Europe in the 14th century was dying in large numbers of the black death, or plague, the Moors opened their ...

Black Moors dominated and civilized Spain for nearly 800 years. Vicente Guerrero, a Black man, was one of the great heroes of Mexico, and briefly served as its president. In Spanish legend ...

Lively account of how the Moors created the culture of Al ... And alus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain by Jason Webster (Black Swan, £7.99 ). In the boisterous company of a Moroccan ...

They have been called the “scum of the earth,” “black riff-raff,” “mercenaries ... In the following year Spain and France combined against the Moors. Abdel Krim surrendered in 1926 and was banished to ...

Is Othello black? With the news that ... In Shakespeare’s time, Moors could be from Africa, but they could also be from the Middle East, or even Spain. While the question is logical to me ...