On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

I don't know." Ask a Persian? "Why no, my friend! I hate poetry! It's so antiquated!" "Oh. Do you know any good poems?" "Yes, ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

The history of Iranian-Israeli relations shows how ancient alliances can turn into modern conflicts, but maybe now is the ...

Attacking Iran is framed by colonial narratives that erase its rich intellectual history, justifying violence through a ‘conquest foretold’ ...

In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...

Once pragmatic allies under the geopolitical pragmatism of the Shah’s Iran, the two nations are now locked in a theological and strategic standoff with global implications. Understanding this rivalry ...

He also names Persia, unequivocally understood as modern-day Iran, which even in Ezekiel’s time was a formidable eastern empire. Persia’s inclusion in the Gogian alliance is striking in its clarity.

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and ...