Arabic science has long made valuable contributions to mathematics and astronomy, Jim Al-Khalili calls for reforms to foster another “golden age” Golden Age II For centuries, Arab scientists were the ...

I just arrived in Cairo, perhaps the country changed most so far by the “Arab spring” pro-democracy movements sweeping across the Middle East, and it got me thinking about the future of authoritarian ...

Soldiers shed their uniforms and slip away into the crowds. Families, jubilant and tearful, comb the dungeons of the old regime in search of loved ones, or traces of them. Bedraggled young men in ...

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted 38 minutes. 1398 Feared Mongol warlord Timur (Tamerlane) captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u ...

A bill amendment pending in the Illinois Senate would require the teaching of Arab American history in public elementary and high schools across the state. Passed by the Illinois House of ...

When 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in response to the confiscation of his produce cart in Tunisia, no one saw how his death would give rise to waves of popular uprisings throughout the ...