Umm Kulthum's father, an imam, recognised her talent early on, but fearing the ire of early 20th-century Egyptian society, disguised her as a boy so she could ...

Baghdad has long been scarred by bombings but now a new dawn is emerging in the Iraqi capital city with the introduction of ...

Here’s some background information about the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Facts Haditha is a city on the Euphrates River northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Eight US Marines faced charges ...

Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city’s famous Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom. By the 900s, drawing from a ...

Hen Mazzig’s family was forced out of Iraq and Tunisia for being Jewish — homes stolen, communities erased and history ...

Don’t counter the idea of erasing Israel by proposing the same for Gaza, writes an Israeli whose family was forced to leave ...

Six candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor assembled at Rider University for a debate Sunday night. What did ...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, unless you’re an impressionist painter. In that case, each day ...

An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, ...