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World Cup & Spain’s uneasy relationship with its Muslim past
'Do not cry like women, for what you could not defend as men', is probably something I would like to think Luis Enrique is telling the selección española on their way back to Spain this week after losing in a penalty shoot-out to the Atlas Lions last Tuesday. This particular phrase is an adapted adage that pierced the lips of the mother of Abu Abdallah Muhammad XII (known as Boabdil in Spain, the last Emir of Granada) as he wept upon his expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1498 by King Ferdinand VII of Castille. This epigram is something I, a British-Andalusian, have heard ad nauseam by Arabs and Muslims alike once the subject of Al Andalus is broached. My most rece

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