In all the wars that Israel has fought since 1948, its armed forces have had a policy of not targeting religious or archaeological treasures. However…
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At the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University lies the oldest recorded documentation of Arabic music and singing.One of…
It’s been a century since the seminal work The Prophet by Lebanese-American poet, artist, and philosopher Gibran Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was…
Aleppo — known as the radiant city, the capital of Muwashahat, Qudud (traditional music), and Samah Dance (Sufi dance) — holds a special place in the…
Mount Hawran in the southernmost part of Syria, is better known as the Druze Mountain, after the name of the community who call the region home.The…
"Little Syria” – a vibrant ethnic neighbourhood that pulsed through the heart of New York in the 1880s to the 1900s – could have been completely…
Ongoing archaeological digs in Saudi Arabia are continuing to unearth clues that may help solve the famous mysteries of a bygone age.As the third…
Many people are under the illusion that environmental disasters and climate change were a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution and the resulting…
A mesmerising show put on by members of the Arab Bedouin Anizah tribe in Chicago in 1893 changed horsemanship in America forever and brought Arabian…
A series of archaeological discoveries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shed new light on the origins and early development of the Arabic writing…
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