Everything about baklava is deceptively complex. To begin with, its origin: is it Ancient Greek? Turkish? Arabic? Assyrian? Central Asian? We’ll get to that soon. The dish itself, too, has parallels ...

COMMENTARY: War-torn Syria was the site 10 years ago of one of the saddest and triumphant human rights crises in history.

Freedom of religion means that religious beliefs, or irreligious ones, can be criticized, even mocked, as happens frequently ...

Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People ...

BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's culture and foreign ministries announced Tuesday the retrieval of antiquities from Switzerland and Japan.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Joseph Yacoub, a specialist in Eastern Christians, examines Syria’s historical identity, highlighting its neglected Christian ...

The church for decades has been a place of worship for Assyrians who fled persecution in the Middle East and also has been a ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Iskef, one of about 5,000 Christian Assyrians in Orebro, was due to get married in the summer and had recently bought a house with his fiancé. "He had so many beautiful plans and so many ...