Giving the house its namesake, the Yakan family soon took up residence in the then-sprawling villa, which must have been an important and well-known residence in Cairo during the dynasty of Khedive ...

In Egypt, a single sharply-drawn caricature has often spoken more defiantly than a thousand words. As Egyptians overthrew ...

"Turning my back on Malcolm," says Muhammad Ali 40 years after the fact, "was one of the mistakes that I regret most in my life." To his credit, Ali has come to grips with this tragic misstep, at ...

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Muhammad Ali and his family settled in Nazareth where they ...