Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office recently released an image of a world map displaying the full territory of Morocco. In the photo, Netanyahu stands alongside U.S. Middle East envoy ...

Last year featured an unusually large number of efforts to rearrange the ethnic, religious and political realities of the Middle East. The most visible and endlessly frustrating effort is the ...

(Photo by en.kremlin.ru / CC BY 4.0) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, addressed the Middle Eastern crises ... fraternal coexistence among religions and for the progress of ...

We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion's role in society, government and national identity.

Across 36 countries, most people say religion helps society and encourages tolerance. They're more divided on whether it promotes superstition.

The United States has a “relatively low level of religious nationalism” compared to other countries, but its impact on ...

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. Yet, Muslims throughout history ...

Even before the ceasefire in Gaza Donald Trump had begun to reshape the Middle East. He was influential in ... as his ticket to a Nobel peace prize. Map: The Economist The agenda of right-wing ...

Writing in Middle East Monitor, Dr Browne considers whether there has been a partial awakening amongst some in the academy when it comes to considering an academic boycott of Israel. In 2023, Dr ...

The concept of Arab unity spread across the Middle East, as newly-independent ... is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al ...

A significant escalation of the conflict in the Middle East in Lebanon has seen over 1 million people flee their homes and over 2,000 people killed (as of 10 October 2024). This marks the latest ...

Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at Manchester offers wide-ranging opportunities for research and advanced training in the history, politics, gender studies, literatures, religious traditions and ...