I had spent most of the journey gazing out of the window, my mind wandering to the stories I had heard about Córdoba—a seat of knowledge and the caliphate of the Umayyad dynasty for hundreds of ...

Founded by the Romans, the city was later ruled by the Visigoths and then became the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate and Europe's second-largest city by the 10th century. The city was then ...

Wallada the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs alMustakfi murdered ... herself with the artistic and the cultured elite of Cordoba of the time The film is both the portrait of this ...