Salaam, y'all — and welcome to the first issue of Arab in Alabama. Every week I'll send you whatever I've been paying attention to: a story, a meal, something my adopted state got right or badly wrong. I'm a Syrian who's spent forty years here, so I'm always translating in one direction or the other. This week is the easy kind. I went to Porto, and I came back with a camera full of it.

Salaam, y’all!! Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next week. Karim

