With every FIFA World Cup featuring Arab national teams, an old debate returns: Can football unite people who share the Arabic language? The tournament often rekindles a sense of pan-Arab ...

Can you imagine reading an editorial in a respected newspaper today discussing the rights of “Negroes” or “Chinamen”? Probably not. And yet, like other newspapers in this country, The Times continues ...

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In 10th-century Basra, in present-day Iraq, a shadowy group of Muslim intellectuals called the Brethren of Purity compiled a massive encyclopedia of all the scientific and philosophical knowledge of ...

Arabs also are more likely than Jews to perceive Israeli society as discriminatory toward a variety of other social and demographic groups. For instance, about a third of Israeli Arabs (34%) say there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marsh Arabs of Iraq are an indigenous population living in the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in the country's ...

The stark contrast between the street demonstrations in Iran in the past two weeks and the absence of any such popular revolts in the Arab world during the past half-century is more than just ...

Many Arabs with European citizenship who left for the Gulf cited high taxes in Europe and struggles to maintain their religious traditions. Gulf Cooperation Council countries are experiencing a wave ...

CONVENIENT as it is to describe the 22 countries (including the unborn Palestine) that belong to the Arab League as “the Arab world”, the neat phrase can mislead. This is a heterogeneous agglomeration ...

A gathering of the Arab League tends to bring out the worst of Middle Eastern stereotypes: dysfunctional protocol, empty exhortations denouncing Western evils and pointless acrimony. Yet this week’s ...