That’s one of many unlikely anecdotes from a new book about how political realities have often contravened popular assumptions about the Middle East throughout the region’s long and bloody ...

The Middle East is considered the birthplace of ... the first major city-states emerged in what is roughly the modern state of Iraq Here, ancient peoples like the Sumerians developed early forms ...

In the late 1960s, Jaroslav Stetkevych, a scholar of Arabic literature, delivered a lecture to a group of academics of the Middle East at St Antony ... large canon of the ancient Arab past.

Human violence in the Middle East ... modern period," Benati said. Debra Martin, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who was not involved in the study but has expertise in ...

Countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are forging strong economic ties with the Middle East ... and this ancient trade route, stretching back over a millennium, looks set to be the future ...

I have been privileged to witness, first-hand, the remarkable evolution of Modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, and this book aims to share that journey with a wider audience.

An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally ... changes over recent times can be found along the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest rifts in ...