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Religion and Technology: Which One Separates and Which One Unites?
Opinion
October 7, 2020
Religion and Technology: Which One Separates and Which One Unites?
For many decades, this gloomy East has been living what might be called a “curse of civilization”. History began here,…
Egypt’s Tourism Minister: Grand Egyptian Museum to house Tutankhamun’s mask upon inaugration
Egypt
October 5, 2020
Egypt’s Tourism Minister: Grand Egyptian Museum to house Tutankhamun’s mask upon inaugration
The opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza will foster a noticeable leap in tourism, according to the…
Belgian city finds its former mayor’s heart in a fountain
World
September 11, 2020
Belgian city finds its former mayor’s heart in a fountain
VERVIERS (Reuters) – For years it was just an urban myth. Then the diggers moved in and found it was…
Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises
Middle East
August 31, 2020
Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises
BEIRUT (AP) — It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on…
After Hagia Sophia, Turkey turns another museum into mosque
Middle East
August 22, 2020
After Hagia Sophia, Turkey turns another museum into mosque
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that…
Restoration work underway for Saint Catherine Monastery Library
Archaeology
August 2, 2020
Restoration work underway for Saint Catherine Monastery Library
The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry has begun renovating the western part of the Saint Catherine Monastery’s Library alongside restoring the…
Highways raise alarm in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead
Features/Interviews
August 1, 2020
Highways raise alarm in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead
CAIRO (AP) — For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling…
Erdogan declares Hagia Sophia a mosque after Turkish court ruling
Middle East
July 11, 2020
Erdogan declares Hagia Sophia a mosque after Turkish court ruling
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to…
Video: Egypt launches guided virtual tour of Ottoman-era masterpiece door
Archaeology
April 28, 2020
Video: Egypt launches guided virtual tour of Ottoman-era masterpiece door
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched a new guided virtual tour taking viewers inside the Museum of Islamic…
Auschwitz online: raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age
World
April 14, 2020
Auschwitz online: raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age
Every day, Pawel Sawicki, head of social media at the Auschwitz Museum, posts several photos of victims of the former…