The United Nations has warned that South Kordofan and the Blue Nile region are "on the brink of catastrophe" as escalating violence worsens Sudan's humanitarian crisis. In a statement yesterday, ...

The Aga Khan is considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed and is treated as a head of ...

Half a century after her death, Um Kalthoum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn ...

The Sundance film 'Khartoum' chronicles the lives of five people who along with the filmmakers fled the capital city when ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?