Xenophon’s tachygraphy captured Socratic dialogues, influencing Greek shorthand and ensuring the preservation of the spoken ...

Seventy-five years ago today, Fort Santiago in Intramuros was declared a national shrine by virtue of Republic Act No. 597. I dug up the law and was surprised to learn that Fort Santiago was supposed ...

What should happen to the architectural remnants of a fallen dictatorship? The instinctive answer is: tear them down.

Board game designers Cole Wehrle and Amabel Holland talk about designing distressing historical games - and whether to make them at all.

Ultimately, Dancing Too Early is both mirror and warning. It reflects a generation growing up within systems no previous ...

Indian street food was never humble. It was always extraordinary, and the cooks who made it knew it, even when no one was writing about them.

The next chapter in Iran depends on whether a credible form of leadership — rooted in Iran’s civilisational inheritance — can ...

In the record books of Western governments and media, the death of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marked the demise of a tyrant and global menace.He was ...

Anyone who has moved away from their hometown for a longer period of time has probably experienced that feeling of returning ...

Built in 1778 by Sultan Abdulhamid I in honor of his mother Rabia Sultan and restored after a 1983 fire, the mosque continues to stand as a ...

At the archaeological site of Old Dongola, in northern Sudan, a small irregularly shaped piece of paper, measuring barely 10 ...

Trauma is the psychological imprint left when overwhelming violence exceeds an individual’s or community’s capacity to process it (Herman, 1992). In societies exposed to prolonged violence, trauma ...