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From Byblos to Baalbek: Lebanon’s Enduring Legacy

The compelling mixture of history, geology, and culture in Lebanon has enough evidences of the past and countryside landscape. Lebanon's traces of the past...

Inside Turkey’s Most Iconic Wellness Experience: The Hamam

Istanbul - Turkish hamams, also known as traditional Turkish baths, remain an enduring element of daily life and cultural identity in Turkey. Rooted in...

Global power shifts are playing out in the Red Sea region: why this is where the rules are changing

Federico Donelli, University of Trieste - The competition for global influence and control is shifting. One of the places where this dynamic is playing...

Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy

Ali Mirchi, Oklahoma State University; Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine; Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, and Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; United Nations...

Friday essay: how societies evolved into fear-dominated goliaths – then collapsed

John Long, Flinders University - We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze...

Pact for the Mediterranean – One Sea, One Pact, One Future – a shared ambition for the region

Brussels - On Thursday (Octobre 16, 2025), the European Commission and the High Representative set out a new ambitious strategy to strengthen EU relations...

Hope and hardship have driven Syrian refugee returns – but many head back to destroyed homes, land disputes

Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents...

Germany’s plan to deport Syrian refugees echoes 1980s effort to repatriate Turkish guest workers

Michelle Lynn Kahn, University of Richmond - For 14 years while Syria’s brutal civil war raged, Germany provided a safe haven for those fleeing...

Hope and hardship have driven Syrian refugee returns – but many head back to destroyed homes, land disputes

Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents...

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