What was the Sykes-Picot agreement, and why does it still affect the Middle East today?
Signed in secret at the height of the first world war, Sykes-Picot was an agreement between France and Great Britain, approved by Russia. It would have lasting consequences for the region. It is ...
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Atatürk’s Ankara
This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
Returning Palestinians try to make their shattered houses homes again
This has been the struggle for displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza under the nearly month-old ceasefire: ...
AP PHOTOS: Palestinians return to homes and lives turned inside out by Gaza’s destruction
The Nassar family managed to assemble a semblance of their home’s old living room. A sofa and some chairs survived, along ...
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Christians and the reconciliation route to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict
He continues, ‘A serious Christian understanding of the Old Testament does not expect nor does it find justification for the establishment of a Zionist Jewish state in modern Palestine’ (113). He goes ...