University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign comparative and world literature professor Eric Calderwood (IMAGE)

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign comparative and world literature professor Eric Calderwood

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The influence of al-Andalus and the image of it as a tolerant multicultural society are reflected in diverse ways in politics and art today, writes comparative and world literature professor Eric Calderwood in his new book, “On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus.”

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