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Few can claim to have produced a wealth of scholarship and achieved mastery over Middle Eastern history, but Roy Mottahedeh's insatiable curiosity for the past has left us with...
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A group of men and women have gathered with an instructor to partake in a religious ceremony which, aside from worship, represents something broader in their lives: how to...
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For Neoconservatives, Iraq was about a vision for a new world based on aggressive and interventionist US foreign policy
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In 2020, with the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak still unknown, Chris Buckley of the New York Times received a phone call from a woman at the Wuhan...
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Located in the central Chinese province of Shaanxi and in the same city as the terra-cotta army, the Great Mosque of Xi’an is believed to have been built in 742 during the Tang dynasty
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Locals and foreigners alike often ask why people in the Middle East are "so lazy". While such a view held by people from outside the region has its roots...