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A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman/Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
Ottoman Empire (1256), Europe (67), Colonialism/Imperialism (1289), Middle East (142), Islam (154)
Süleyman the Magnificent
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.
Who are the Taliban?
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
Ali, left, walking through the streets of Kinshasa in 1974.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday
Castilian ambassadors attempt to ally themselves with Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada.
The Iberian Realm of Islam
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.
A New View of West African Empires
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.
A Postcard from Jerusalem
Sheikha Mozah
Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa
Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram.
The Hajj and Europe
A woman walks by revolutionary graffiti in Cairo.
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
A group of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
A bus that has been blown up by terrorists
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe
Abubakar Shekau with other Boko Haram fighters.
All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
Dome of the Rock
Religions of the Middle East
Artwork of the Battle of Chaldiran (1514).
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra
Understanding the Middle East
Official ISIS flag
11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)
Egyptian Leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser
Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later