For over 600 years carpets from Anatolia, Turkey and Persia have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by ...

INTRODUCTION Egyptologists have made one cardinal mistake by including human beings with white complexions as Pharaohs in ...

Originating in the Horn of Africa and first cultivated in the Arabian Peninsula, coffee has been providing the world with refreshment for at least 500 years.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Egyptian author Mohamed Samir Nada has won the 18th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for The Prayer of Anxiety (Masciliana).

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Her second book, “Sister, Sinner” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a biography of Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist whose ...