In 1258, the Mongol Empire unleashed one of the most devastating sieges in history, bringing down the heart of the Islamic ...

The written word has always been fragile. Paper burns, scrolls decay, and ink fades under the weight of time. But what makes ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least three rockets landed in the Baghdad International Airport compound and near an adjacent U.S. air base, damaging one disused civilian aeroplane, Iraqi police sources said.

BAGHDAD (AP) — An airline in Greece will start running direct flights from the European Union country to Baghdad before the end of the year, the Greek foreign minister announced Thursday during a ...

Mosque and hospital of Divriği in modern day Turkey. It was built in the 13th century and you can still visit its remains today. During the Abbasid Caliphate (AD750 -1258), Baghdad became the centre ...

Krismas fi Maccah ("Christmas in Mecca"), by Ahmed Khairi Al-Omari, Cairo: Aseer Al-Kotob Publishing, 2019, pp.331 Christmas in Mecca is a novel by the Iraqi author Dr. Ahmed Al-Omari, which discusses ...

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A man wearing a modern day thawb (long tunic) and taqiyah (cap). Men started wearing a long one piece garment with sleeves called a thawb. In the Umayyad Caliphate (AD661 - 750) designers started ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century AD, ...

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