In recent years, women in Arab markets during Ramadan have been increasingly wearing the abaya, a traditional, loose-fitting ...

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French creators bring to stage their inspirations including Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite,' hanbok and 1920s French architeture ...

Corruption in Pakistan has metastasised beyond mere governance flaws; it has infiltrated every fabric of the state, ...

Offering young Jews an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel is a phenomenal way to spark a social experiment in identity ... the Mishkan wasn’t built by an elite class. Moses invited everyone ...

Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not.

Its potent variant, plutocracy, subverts the political system by channeling wealth to the ruling class through legal ... it toward eventual economic and social collapse. The Greek word "phthora ...

That's right, bartering — a moneyless exchange of goods dating back to Mesopotamian times. The Augie students chose this approach for the "Let's bARTer" pop-up event as part of a class-based social ...

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

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