Samir Herzallah founded Tawlah Tuesdays to show solidarity for Palestine. Now people are engaging with backgammon in a new ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

Arabic and Hebrew belong to the Semitic language family, a group of languages spoken primarily throughout North Africa and ...

The five-week Semitic Sisters class is funded by the university's Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote dialogue across differences ...

For centuries, Tur Abdin, encompassing parts of today's Mardin Province, served as a spiritual and cultural heartland, dotted ...

The Kurds are a group of people who are indigenous to the Mesopotamian plains and nearby highlands which, today, stretch across southeastern Turkiye, northeastern Syria, northern Iraq, northwestern ...

Evidence indicates that these people held positions of power because of their gender ambiguity, not despite it.

Minoan Linear A tablets yield insights into the civilization’s economy and administration without the language being ...

I ndeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...