Exhibit in the US city of Baltimore shows how mercury, arsenic, lead and orpiment were used to illustrate and bind books ...

The five ‘Stans’, independent nations since 1991, are influenced by their neighbours, but distinctive and fascinating.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill? That’s the premise of an exhibit at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum that looks at four toxic pigments used for millennia and ...

The wealthiest families of the Gilded Age lived in enormous mansions outfitted with gold, marble, and priceless art. Take a ...

After her daughter was born, Coppell mom Lail Hussein launched her Islamic home decor business "With a Spin." She wanted her ...

The Egyptian head of a network of interfaith centers relates how early Arab Christians taught him to engage Islam.

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – Aazmia Islam just completed second grade, and she is already celebrating so much more as her first book becomes published. The book is titled “Jaylyn Grace Wins ...

It is a community stitched together by argument, nostalgia, and pickled lemon. Whatever you do, never interrupt a Bengali mid ...

St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad—the only Anglican church in Iraq—has always offered a window into the state of things in this often troubled nation, which is still recovering from more than ...

What is a fatwa? A fatwa is a non-binding legal opinion in Islam, issued by a qualified religious scholar (mufti) on a specific issue, serving as interpretations of Islamic law (Sharia) and guiding ...

"The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the ...