Like so many of our meals in Jordan, the food keeps coming. Creamy hummus in pools of olive oil, fresh tabbouleh salad topped ...

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If Protestantism - both before and after Max Weber's seminal book on the topic - came to be identified as the poster religion of capitalism, then US President Donald Trump has always been a convert.

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, including ancient Hindu s.

To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers. This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway ...

A lot has changed since the publication of this 1750 map of Palestine. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Image ...