Language is never just a means of communication. It is identity, memory, access, and belonging. Across the Middle East, few ...

Iraq resumed on Saturday crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region, state media said, after a more than two-year halt over legal and technical disputes. Control over lucrative oil exports has ...

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common between it and the language we have now. More than 1000 years ago, English was ...

As Iranian studies scholar Elham Hoominfar argues: “support for Pahlavi signals despair, not consensus.” Others have ...

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