From the 22nd to the 30th of this month you will be able to view a photo exhibition in La Herradura of landscapes and historical heritage sites.

The exhibition hall Pepe Gámez in the village Centro Cívico will be the venue for a photo collection, belonging to the Universidad de Granada project, entitled: Poblamiento e intercambios en torno al mar de Alborán, (Al-Andalus-Magreb, siglos VIII-XV).

Basically it’s a close look at the exchanges between civilization on both sides of the Mar de Alborán between the 8th and 15th Centuries. The Mar de Alborán is area of the Mediterranean separating Spain from North Africa, more or less.

Arabists and archaeologists got together to examine texts and information produced from archaeological digs to piece together the interaction of cultures on either side of the wet bit.
Right, the press release waffles on and on, but summing up in good old Gazette fashion… pop along and have a shufti at the photos.

Note for non-native English speakers: “Shufti” is old military slang – which made its way into everyday slang – meaning “to have a look.”

It comes from Arabic and means “have you seen.” It was extensively used by British servicemen during the Second-World-War desert campaign although it was first recorded as an RAF expression from 1925 used on bases in that area.

Another common British slang word from the same origin is “bint” used as a synonym for “young woman,” and is Arabic for precisely that.

As Michael Caine might say, “Not many people know that…”