Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

A modern vision has met traditional resistance as the pilot operation of the long-awaited Giza Plateau Facilities Development ...

Rerouting History: From Suez to the Arctic Once upon a time, if you were mapping global trade, your pen would glide through the Middle East and North Africa. Cairo. Haifa. Dubai. Aden. The Suez Canal ...

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of ancient ...

In short, not only is it proper to incorporate current events into the Seder, but it is likely a fulfillment or at the very least an enhancement of the mitzvah to recount the Exodus from Egypt. Howeve ...

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region often marked by fragmentation, Hotelling’s clustering helps us understand not just where states invest and deploy, but how they position themselves ...

All individuals exhibited a number of physical injuries to their bodies, all of which could be attributed as their cause of death, researchers said. This suggests they were likely all killed in ...

Objective The study assessed the prevalence of physical violence against pregnant women and its associated factors in ... Ghana for helping to produce the spatial map.

A new development in the mystery of a purported city beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids could, if proven true, fundamentally ...

Compete with the best and the brightest for AUC’s Excellence Scholarships, and earn yourself a spot at Egypt’s top University. The more scholarships you combine, the higher the percentage of your ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

From prehistoric paths dating back to the Neolithic period to walking routes used by Buddhist monks and tea merchants, these trails offer much more than a scenic walk in nature.