Ezra, their father, emigrated with his family and whatever savings he had left at the end of the 19th century to Kuwait, forming the nucleus of the first Jewish community there. The family excelled in ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba ...

AMMAN - Linda Jacobs is a familiar scholar in the Middle East where she spent decades studying archaeological sites and ...

Syrian voices bring Doha to life this week with pianist and composer Malek Jandali's Syrian Symphony and singer Assala Nasri’s soulful tunes.

Militant Islamist groups now have a primary political position in a strategically important Arab country, Syria, something that has not happened since the fall of the Mamelukes at the beginning of the ...

Following his death, Arab forces captured the city ... features palace ruins and residential complexes. First described in the 19th century, its cultural layers, spanning from the sixth to 13th ...

From the believed birthplace of Jesus Christ in Palestine, to a minimalist marvel in Abu Dhabi, these houses of worship are testament to the Middle East's unbroken links to the origins of Christianity ...

President Trump's territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

By the late 19th century, a mosque with a minaret ... in the 1860s during the late Ottoman period, as Jerusalem’s Arab notables and affluent families started building grand houses along Nablus ...