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Ahead of a top-level visit by Iran’s new president, Iraq seems to be garnering greater attention as the go-to place for Shiites looking for an alternative to its eastern neighbor. ByShelly Kittleson InBaghdad, reporting onIraqi politics ...
High Medieval textiles of Asian and Middle Eastern provenance at Prague Castle, Czech RepublicBravermanová, MilenaBezinová, HelenaVíchová, Jana BureArchaeological Textiles Review
** Turkey is the other consideration as to whether there are 15, 16, or 17 Middle Eastern Countries. Some argue that Turkey belongs to the countries in Europe due to Istanbul being in Europe. But 95% of the country lies in Western Asia, hence more often than not, being referred to as...
The Republic of Tajikistan came into being in late 1991 as a state with no historical precedent. Emerging from decades of secular Soviet political and cultural control, cut off from the Tajik heartland of Bukhōrō and Samarqand, and facing a potent challenge from a charismatic Islamist movement,...
A Bed for the King’s Daughterby Shahla Ujayli, translated from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain (Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020) Full disclosure: I had quite a different title lined up as my final book of the month of 2020. I was going to writ...
The Republic of Tule was declared by Guna people living along the eastern coast of southern Panama and northern Columbia. The region was formerly called San Blas and is now called Guna Yala. The obverse of this unofficial 2024 Republic of Tule 10 Balboa depicts the head of a Jaguar. The ...
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in adults is consistently high in many regions: approximately 4.9% in sub-Saharan Africa, and 1.0% in the countries of the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. In South, Southeast, and East Asia, there were almost 5 million infected in these three regions...