On paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in the Persian Gulf but ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

The Middle East is a region of intense beauty and ancient kingdoms. It has also repeatedly endured periods of geopolitical ...

The global airline industry is taking special interest in how the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran plays out. The ...

In his book on the Chinese Tang-era poet Du Fu, Wood takes the reader on a journey through China's past and present and ...

On his latest work, India; A Linguistic Civilization that explores how the diversity that defines the Indian mind space ...

As such, the road to Tehran has been paved, not today, but over the next year.

Excavations near Nineveh (near modern-day Mosul) uncovered a complex aqueduct-esque system with the inscription: "Sennacherib, king of the world…Over a great distance, I had a watercourse directed to ...

In terms of its ancient roots, the Greek language stands alongside other remarkable tongues with long written traditions. Chinese, for example, has an ancient writing system dating back to over 3,000 ...

Now I couldn't even invite my friends from the bazaar to come to my house and look at my rugs. They would have been arrested." Eagleton, who was held in suspicion by some of Saddam Hussein's clique ...