When you hear the word witch, what comes to mind? I hear a cackling laugh. I see an ugly, hunchbacked woman dressed in black. She is stirring her cauldron of potions, flying on a broom in the moonlight, and casting up-to-no-good spells. This is probably the image most people have. Why? Witches were hunted and […]
Musafir is more than a ship. She’s an ideal—a vision and symbol of another way of life. Those who built her and those who meet her find themselves swept up by the singularity of her story. Musafir—or Msafr in Ki-Swahili—is Arabic for traveler. And indeed, the soul of the 70-foot (21-meter) dhow is travel. When […]