Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

It is important that Palestinians are the narrators of their own stories, so I was initially apprehensive about the shared aspect to The Holy Land and ... in a previous Middle East Eye article ...

perhaps even more than they show us the situation of the Middle East at the time. The maps are indeed a unique window of how people thought of, dreamed of, and envisioned the Holy Land 500 years ago.

And studying the choices that go into maps, as I do, can reveal different stories about land and the people who ... This is ...

With an initiative that has no publicized precedents, at least in recent memory, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, met with the nuncios of the Middle East region at the end ...

pointing out that Jesus once passed through Gaza when the Holy Family fled into Egypt. Pope Francis is also remembered fondly in other precincts of the Middle East. He was the first pope to travel ...

Listing the motives for the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, he accused Jews of "bringing red cows" to the Holy Land ... history of the Middle East, when the ancient ...