Emotions were running high among the dozens of Syrians gathered at the Zawaya Art Gallery in the heart of Damascus on January ... of forced exile in France. His first feature film, Nujim An ...

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New research examines artifacts found in 2018 in two vessels next to the synagogue at Huqoq, in an excavation led by Prof.

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Rajan Philips Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre ...

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...

The caliph put the first matter in the hands of ... Above, a 14th-century pharmaceutical container made in Damascus. Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices ...

Sheinbaum Pardo opened the news conference in Mexico City with a 17th Century map of North and South America ... people who had been living there first. "Power was inscribed onto the landscape ...