This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

The tension between past empires and modern nationalism remains a challenge, but as the world evolves, this challenge can be ...

The capitulation of Alexandria marked the end of Byzantine Egypt just two years after the campaign began, making it the shortest conquest of the early Muslim era. The next target was the south, and in ...

Anti-Islamism isn’t Islamophobia. And let’s not equate either with antisemitism! Just as we were thinking mischievous ...

The Ark of the Covenant was used by the Israelites to transport the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.

The show has also been criticised by religious figures in Egypt over its ... a leading role in the conquest of Syria from the Byzantine empire. Uthman, the third Muslim caliph after Abu Bakr ...

(a cemetery) in Cairo that has served as a burial site for nearly 1,400 years. A Brief History of Cairo's City of the ...

Initially, he opposed the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), but after the conquest of Mecca by Muslims, Muawiya and his family converted ... After Imam Ali's martyrdom in 40 AH, Muawiya took control of Egypt ...

A Journey Through the Stories of Stones] and Khitat Al-Qahera – Maqalat fi al-tatawur al-omrani [Cairo Maps: Articles on ...