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Christian Nolting, CIO of Deutsche Private Bank, looks at the factors that global markets are digesting going into the second ...
Co-editor of Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia (2017), she shares with Middle East Eye that “women in the ancient Near East had about the same legal rights as men did, although they appear ...
Egyptians say the influential streaming service is dragging an ancient queen into a modern, and decidedly Western, debate — about Black representation in Hollywood — in which she has no real ...
When the late Queen Elizabeth II took the throne in February 1952, the UK was still an empire that held control over vast swathes of the planet and counted hundreds of millions of subjects.. Since ...
This week we take a look at Queen Elizabeth and the Middle East, intensified Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, and the refugees and migrants still struggling to make it to Europe.
Here’s a closer look at Agatha Christie’s Middle Eastern novels and how her love for the region shaped these gripping stories. 1. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) – Set in Iraq ...
She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...
An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.
Beyoncé and Rihanna have adorned themselves as Nefertiti, the ancient queen of Egypt; Nina Simone said she believed she was Nefertiti reincarnate; and Ms. Turner once sang about being Queen ...
Archaeologists investigating the legendary kingdom of Sheba in the Yemeni province of Marib, have finished restoring an ancient temple which they believe could become one of the world's great tourist ...
Saana Svärd was interviewed for an article in Middle East Eye highlighting significant women in ancient Mesopotamian history. Writer and critic Farah Abdessamad tells of the many influential yet ...