Speaking of arabesque tesselations, this photo I took is about 5 feet of a twelve foot tall door, installed in the 1300's in the Hassan mosque in Cairo.While I was there my guide told me Ayman al-Zawahiri had studied in this Mosque, and if anybody asked me where I was from, I should say "France". My guide said I was the first american he knew of in that building since 9/11.My guide tried to dissuade me from entering, but I was not going to let a few extremists interfere with my study of the history of ornament.
