King Mohammed is a member of the Alawi dynasty, which has been in power since 1631 and is the 23rd in line. The House of Shorafa Alawi claims to be descended from the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and ...

In Zahra, an Alawi neighbourhood on the outskirts of Homs in western Syria, an unspoken, organic curfew has taken hold since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. With the rise to power of Hay'at Tahrir al ...