Culture & People

Located at the crossroads of sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb region, Mauritania shares most of its land area with the Great Sahara Desert. Thus,...

Mandeans are an ancient religious group that first lived in southern Mesopotamia more than 2,000 years ago. Their rituals vaguely resemble Zoroastrian and Nestorian...

The Lydians lived in ancient Anatolia, and their land started at the Aegean sea and stretched eastward. They occupied the Cayster and Hermus river...

The Beys were the first rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The provinces or regions which they controlled had the name beylik or governorate. They equated...

Assyrian people were an ancient society who lived in the northern part of Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, and parts of Iran, Syria, and Kuwait. Assyrians...

Arabs in simple terms refer to people whose native language is Arabic. In 1946, the Arab League defined an Arab as follows: “An Arab is...

Lebanese people share many of their cultural characteristics of the Arab world. Yet, it has attributes that differentiate it from many of its Arab...

In Islam, the Companions of the Prophet (Ashab or Sahaba in Arabic) were disciples of Muhammad. They were the people who had physical contact...

Located in Cordoba's beautiful mid-sized hill-covered city, the Great Mosque of Cordoba Mihrab, locally known as Mezquita, is an impressive historical structure built in...

Sumer was the earliest known ancient civilization in the Mesopotamian region between the 6th and 5th millennium B.C. The Sumerians were known for their...