Abu Dhabi was a global backwater when it started exporting oil six decades ago, with a population of 30,000, few paved roads ...
We've just celebrated Christmas with its usual flurry of Nativity plays, where Herod is typically the villain. But did you ...
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Vignettes of priests, patrons and power

I do not write as a stranger to faith, nor as a cynic peering from the margins. My late maternal grandmother, a revered Iya\u202fSuna in Ota, raised me within the discipline of Islāmiyya. My first ...
Sharjah: The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) has launched a new service, ‘Awn 60+’, aimed at supporting senior ...
A textbook carry trade blew up in a flash. Donald Trump’s White House return quickly sank — and then revived — financial markets across the world, lit a fire under European defense stocks, and ...
Near the gardens of the Taj Mahal stands the important 16th-century Mughal monument known as the Red Fort of Agra. This powerful fortress of red sandstone encompasses, within its 2.5-km-long enclosure ...