The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but didn’t in order to test our commitment to the religion that each of us have been given by God.

Nimrod appears in the Bible for just four verses, yet his legend exploded into one of the most dramatic stories in ancient ...

At least 19 Iranian Christians reportedly killed during protests against Iran's regime, including victims Nader Mohammadi and ...

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On Valentine's Day, I've been thinking about couples who work together and change the world. I pursued my reflections and focused on the mythical couple ...

What is it about Fridays and the number 13 that sends people into a superstitious tizzy? To find out, you need to go back a ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

Director Hasan Hadi evokes the collective trauma that millions of Iraqi children grew up internalising with the story of a young girl tasked with making a cake for Saddam Hussein’s birthday cake in ...

In the wee hours of Monday, January 19, US President Donald Trump sent a now-infamous text message to the prime minister of ...

The 20th century was a period of political fragmentation between monarchies and republics in the Middle East. The success of ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...