UC Berkeley will launch a new endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab studies, one of the few in the nation, as the Israel-Hamas war has fueled huge demand to better understand the history, ...

Are the terms alcohol and kohl related? Yes, if we trace their origins. An Arabic etymological term base, the first of its kind, can provide new knowledge about Arab identity and cultural history. Are ...

Most people in Iran are Persian, not Arab. When global headlines group Iran with countries such as Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, many assume they all share the same ethnic roots. Iran is ...

RIYADH (Reuters Life!) - History never really dies, at least not in the Middle East. Sign up here. The Fatimid caliphate, a medieval Arab Islamic empire based in Cairo, has been at the center of a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Lucas Oil Stadium sits near Capital and South Street now, but 120 years ago, it was home to one of Indy’s first Arabic-speaking communities. An IUPUI professor is leading efforts ...

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century, the western and central part of Europe was swept down by many barbarian tribes and fell into the so-called Dark Ages for some ...

In late Ottoman Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, Jewish intellectuals read Arabic fluently, translated medieval Islamic texts into Hebrew, argued about Arabic grammar, mapped the land, and treated ...