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A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

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The enthusiasm is not limited to students in the Chinese language department. Hero, a graduate of English literature from the University of Sulaimani, speaks fluent English, Kurdish, and Arabic. For ...

Embedded in the centre of the mihrab, or prayer niche, of the 16th-century Masjid Al Ali is a Chinese porcelain dish.Other mosques in Oman have similar examples of Chinese porcelain, and broken ...

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, several members of Owain’s TA regiment had recently returned from Iraq with impressive suntans and a repertoire of exotic anecdotes. Meanwhile, in the ...

Co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza structured their film around the memories of veterans in Ramadi that day.

Yes, the film tells the true story of a surveillance mission gone wrong in insurgent territory in Ramadi, Iraq, in November 2006 – in which co-director Ray Mendoza was directly involved.

Prime Minister of Iraq H E Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani met Minister of Culture H E Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Thani, who is visiting Iraq. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation and ...

The long passage, which I will truncate, is about the journey on the road to Emmaus: “Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.