Arabbing, the centuries-old Baltimore tradition of selling items out of a horse-drawn wagon, persists today despite being on ...

Most Arab immigrants to Cleveland, however, like those to the rest of the U.S., came from Greater Syria. The Arab world, although predominantly Muslim, has a significant Christian minority, and most ...

For example, by the late 19th century, many Palestinians rose up against the Ottoman Empire’s efforts to assimilate its subjects into Turkish identity. Similarly, the Palestinian revolt of 1834 marked ...

View LIDDED BOX WITH A SEATED ARAB (19th Century) Attributed to Franz Xaver Bergmann; cold-painted, or polychrome painted, bronze sculpture mounted on a metal casket; 3 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 5 3/8 in., (9.2 x ...

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin’s latest novel, Samahani, takes us to 19th-century Zanzibar, where Omani Arabs ruled the East African archipelago. “I wasn’t planning to write about Zanzibar at all,” the ...

View A late 19th century French patinated and cold painted spelter Orientalist equestrian group of an Arab huntsman, together with a pair of similar attendant figures after Guillemin of an Arab ...

The 19th century in the Arab-Ottoman world has thus left a contradictory legacy. It saw the emergence of two kinds of project that would go on to divide the Middle East, until today: ones aiming at a ...

Back in the mid-19th century, the ailing hegemon was the Ottoman Empire, based in Istanbul, ... Mikhayil Mishaqa, an influential Arab Christian and US consul in the city.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. ... which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. On May 14, 1948, ...