Joseph Yacoub, a specialist in Eastern Christians, examines Syria’s historical identity, highlighting its neglected Christian ...

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.

The brilliance of Theodor Nöldeke's mind, his awareness of Greek literature, his knowledge of three Semitic languages, and his expertise in Persian and Middle Persian made him a distinguished ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

They stopped using Greek and used the Syriac language in their liturgy. The Syriac language is similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. Through the work of Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Thomas, like Bartholomew, is one of the Twelve Disciples we would not know much about if it was not for John recording a ...

“We had to dig through a bivouac from the 1948 war, including a live Syrian shell ... probably from the Aramaic words for oil press. Today many pilgrims come to this grove of olive trees ...

After the meeting, Abdoka presented Mercer with a gift symbolizing the rich heritage of the Chaldean, Assyrian, and Syriac-Aramaic civilizations in Kurdistan and Beth Nahrain, underscoring the ...

"We're preserving the coexistence and pluralism that was in Iraq," Benjamen said. Born and raised in Kirkuk, an oil-rich ...