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 ...

Malcolm X died on Feb. 21, 1965, just four days short of the first anniversary of Ali's surprise conquest of Sonny Liston. Ali's victory in 1964, in fact, greased the wheels then already in motion ...

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 ...