Riad Alarian is the editor-in-chief of Muftah and a PhD student at Georgetown University. His protest was both a rejection of the idea that human life is expendable and an acknowledgment that, for ...

Art historians, architects, engineers and master artisans spent six years restoring a 14th-century royal palace and turning it into the coddling nine-room Riad Fes Maya at the medina’s edge.