Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

The Hindi-Urdu controversy is not just about language. It reflects historical conflicts, colonial policies, and political struggles that continue today in India.

Peerzada Mohsin Shafi On World Poetry Day, as UNESCO's call to honour poets and preserve linguistic heritage echoes globally, ...

The other, and this is where lay museumgoers come in ... There are 20 or so on display, along with photographs, letters, and an auction catalog. (In art, no less than in politics, follow the ...

In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic on February ... itself. In a letter read by his political allies in Istanbul on February 27, he wrote, “I take on the historical responsibility for this call. [… ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

Hours before he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, 23-year-old journalist Hossam Shabat filed an article with Drop Site News ...

Hossam Shabat is dead. I am beyond rage and despair as I write these words. The Israeli military bombed his car this morning as he was traveling in Beit Lahia. Videos fill my screen of his body lying ...

At the time of Malcolm’s death, Betty was pregnant and the mother of four children: Daughter Attilah, named after the Hun; Daughter Quiblah, after Kublai Khan; Daughter Ilyasah, Arabic for ...

Cairo’s Arabic name, Al-Qahirah, translates to “The Conqueror” or “The Vanquisher.” The Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli ...

Writer, photographer and color field painter Peggy Hinaekian is 89 years old and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact the ...

While I was in the middle of writing this column, an eyelash fell into my right eye, causing me great distress and thus ...