The Beauty of Spain

Ibrahim Al-Marashi is a scholar of modern history with a focus on the Middle East and political communications. He was drawn to Spain in part by the history of La Convevencia, the relatively harmonious coexistence between Muslims, Christians and Jews that flourished in Muslim ruled Spain from 8th through 15th centuries. An article he wrote as a young scholar was plagiarized by the British government to justify the invasion of his family's native country of Iraq. Today living Islam, looking inside the nature and meaning of Muslim identity in 9 American lives.