The role of Jasmine, a wide-eyed princess with a pet tiger, has been given to Naomi Scott: a biracial actress of British and Indian descent. This contention, of course, rests on the view that the Disney film is set in the Middle East, which is technically incorrect. It takes placeRead More →
An Arab can be defined as a member of a Semitic people, inhabiting much of the Middle East and North Africa. The ties that bind Arabs are ethnic, linguistic, cultural, historical, nationalist, geographical, political, often also relating to religion and to cultural identity. What countries are classed as Arab? TheRead More →
The Arabs were originally the people of the Arabian desert. Converted to Islam in the 7th century A.D., they conquered the Middle East from the Sassanian and Byzantine empires and established a succession of Arab-Islamic Middle Eastern empires from Spain to Central Asia and from the Caucasus to India. DoRead More →