A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
Middle East
Explore the Middle East through its long history and the forces shaping the region today. These studies connect ancient civilizations with modern struggles over identity and political power.
Today, we tend to think that birth alone confers citizenship. Not so in medieval England. By Dr....
By the 3rd millennium BCE, the southern Levant was a land of small, fortified towns and villages,...
A meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on board the...
Israeli police patrol the Gaza coast (Photo: Edo Medicks / Flickr) Don’t wait for the next massacre...
Nathan Birbaum,(1864 – 1937) Austrian writer, Jewish thinker and nationalist. Wikicommons/ Zionist Archive. Some rights reserved. These...
“In 1948, the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) saw the state of Israel established, 750,000 Palestinians forced into...
Jerusalem Old City from Mount of Olives / Photo by Wayne McLean, Wikimedia Commons The United States...
Mundovision By Eric A. Gordon / 04.19.2018 The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War...
The Beauty of Palmyra, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek By Judith Weingarten / 09.02.2015 Archaeologist The Beauty of Palmyra When...