After Alexander the Great destroyed the Persian Empire, Iran became the crossroads of competing empires struggling to control ...

When we look at Iran through the prism of religion and see a Shia Islamic country, we negate its thousands of years of rich ...

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Eski Foça, a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast, has been shaped by thousands of years of history and conquered by dozens of civilizations. Yet it still feels sheltered from the chaos of the modern world.

The world’s largest ethnic group without an independent state is concentrated in Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria ...

Western culture and religion have inherited much from the Middle East and this continues to shape our worldview ...

Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite records?

What we know about the real St. Patrick, from enslaved shepherd to high-class influencer, and from snake-banishing to pagan ...

March’ and the ‘Ides of March’ need not evoke superstitious fears. But they can and should alert us to the horrid antics of our — human beings’ — ultra male impulse that lives and plots and works in t ...

Every day, I sit before my TV set and watch with deep sadness the death and destruction spreading in the Middle East, and the collateral damage to the rest of the world. I can only pray that the ...