The Blue Nile Sailing Club Cafeteria in Khartoum

The oddest story in my new book

When you research a big book like my “Islamic Architecture: A World History”, you come across some amazing facts. Most of them have ended up in the book of course. A few haven’t because they were not relevant to the subject of architecture (such as a North African ruler who’s in the Guinness Book of World Records as having fathered the most children in …