After five centuries of brilliance, the Abbasid Caliphate met its end in 1258, when Mongol armies stormed Baghdad. The city ...

It seems that Baghdad is in the news every day as a result of the war in Iraq, but once upon a time, this ancient city was a leading world center of culture and education. Here’s a brief look at its ...

Recently, I’ve been buttonholing everybody I know and telling them about Hulagu. What happened was, a couple of years ago Osama bin Laden said (in one of his intermittent recorded messages to the ...