STRUGGLE AND FORTITUDE The eight-year-long Iran-Iraq War was one of the most devastating conflicts that inflicted the modern Middle East. While casualty estimates are disputed,…

The trade of stolen treasures is booming around the world. Although like with most illegal activities, looting is hard to quantify; satellite imagery, police seizures, and witness reports from the…

Egypt has asked Interpol to help track down a 3,000 sculpture of the famed boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun after it was sold in Christie’s in London for almost £5 million to an anonymous buyer in one…

If there’s one thing that fascinated Tayeb Salih, it’s the impact of colonialism has had on Sudan and Sudanese society. Unlike many of his contemporaries who focused on postcolonial struggles of…

Asia’s two largest and most diverse democracies held national elections in recent weeks, and religious tolerance was on the ballot in both. Voters, however, delivered diametrically opposed verdicts. …

Athleticism Runs in the Family Cori “Coco” Gauff was born on March 15, 2004, in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Her parents were athletes during their youth, as her…

Perhaps the reason we’re no longer able to see into the future like the great writers of the twentieth century, is that we’re in our own version of what they predicted. …

Bagehot: The Life andTimesof the Greatest Victorian.James Grant. Norton, 2019. 368pp. InJames Grant, it sometimes seems, the nineteenth century has been resuscitated. Towering, gaunt, bow…

The city walls are scarred with bullet holes and burn marks. Tattered camouflage netting hangs like moss over defunct fighter posts and the Moorish archways of the marketplace. The cries of hungry…

InVenezuela, a humanitarian crisis is coming to a boil. The country’s GDP has shrunk by double digits over the past few years, annual inflation runs to more than 80,000 percent, and 90 percent of the…