Al-BAB

The following are examples of Islamic art stretching across ten centuries, and ranging from Central Asia to the Maghreb. They are found in ...

T he Haji Omran Road, also known as the “Hamilton Road”, is a little-known rural highway in Northern Iraq that cuts through some of the most...

In the tenth century, the city of Cordoba was the New York and Paris of its time, the centre of cultural activity, with over seventy librari...

For conservative Egyptians, this bar, located on a side-road off Saad Zaghloul Street in Alexandria, adds a certain insult to injury with it...

In 1989, two renowned American academics, psychologist Robert Ornstein and biologist Paul Ehrlich, wrote a book called “New World New Mind: ...

They say that birds are descended from dinosaurs. It may be that some humans have also undergone such transformations. Jibril Rajoub, once s...

The most interesting Middle East Institutions are often those that fly far below the radar of the masses. A purely word-of-mouth establishme...

Overshadowed by the heavily trafficked tourist sites of Petra and Wadi Rum, is one of Jordan’s least known treasures. Ninety kilometers sout...

A reality that is easily forgotten about each of the three monotheistic faiths of the Middle East is that they were each once a profound att...

In his book, S cience of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World , William C. Chittick has ...

Situated on the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, the village of Hasankeyf may be the oldest continually settled town on earth. It is a p...

Ibn al-Shatir was an important Arab astronomer who lived during the medieval Islamic period. Like many of his peers he was a polymath and al...

The postage stamps displayed here come from a collection entitled "Lebanon Illustrated by its Stamps" by Dr. Joseph M. Hatem and p...