Just as recent political dynamics have rendered the old map of the Middle East obsolete, so have large-scale social changes. From the 1950s through the 1980s, the mass migration of laborers from ...

The Middle East has seen the map of power redrawn time and again in the long shadow of the United States. Each turn of the ...

Much has been made of how European imperial powers reshaped the Middle East after World War I, a transformation often said to have begun 100 years ago this week when France and Britain signed the ...

In late September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heralded a prosperous and connected “New Middle East.” But it turns out the “old” Middle East was impossible to bury.

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map -- and they believe it's led them to the location of Noah's Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries ...