The major in Middle East studies provides students with the opportunity to deeply explore this region’s historical, political, social and cultural complexity. Broadly conceived, this geographical ...

East Flatbush is a dynamic neighborhood that was once considered an amalgam of several smaller neighborhoods. The western section of today’s East Flatbush was originally part of the Dutch town of ...

Are you living in the USA, but are of Middle Eastern or Eastern European ancestry? Here are seven steps to searching your Middle Eastern and European genealogy records in the former Ottoman Empire's ...

John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020), 968 pp., $35.00. IF ONE had to come up with a single sentence to sum up all of the ...

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For more than a century, archaeologists and historians have attempted to confirm beliefs of both Christians and Jews about their common past using the Old Testament (OT) and New Testaments (NT) as ...

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At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

As the world undergoes rapid political and economic transformations with escalating conflicts shaking the Middle East, the region has witnessed over a full year of genocide in Gaza – and no clear ...

This documentary chronicles the history of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. This documentary chronicles the history of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. Through two world wars and other ...