In a new edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001...

Return to an era when Zanzibar was ruled by sultans, and enter a vanished world of harems, slave trading, and court intrigues. In this insider's story, a sultan's daughter who fled her gilded cage...

Sinan Antoon's I'jaam is included in an article about contemporary Arabic novels in the current issue of the New Yorker.Hear an interview with Sinan Antoon on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show | PRI's "The...

A celebration of more than forty of the finest classical carpets created in Egypt, Turkey, Persia, the Caucasus, and IndiaAmong the most beautiful and precious textiles in the world, carpets from...

All the practical advice you need for a journey back in time to the remarkable city of Istanbul under the sultansThis entertaining and informative guide takes you on a journey back to 1750 and the...

A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian history Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore...

Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination"...

How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary LebanonSouth Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable,...

When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the...

An "intelligent and fascinatingly readable" examination of Al Qaeda after the death of its longtime leader, by the renowned Arab world journalist (Pat Lancaster, editor in chief of Middle East...