The series was not broadcast on any Egyptian TV channels or platforms, only on MBC and Shahed. It was known that the director ...

In interviews with The New Arab, viewers and scholars expressed outrage over the Muawiya TV series’ controversial depiction ...

Built in the early 8th century beside the Wadi Butum, a seasonal watercourse, this desert establishment was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence/pleasure palace of the Umayyad caliphate.

Men started wearing a long one piece garment with sleeves called a thawb. In the Umayyad Caliphate (AD661 - 750) designers started making them patterned or striped. Many women wore a headscarf or ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

Valencia was once destroyed by Abd al-Rahman I of the Umayyad dynasty and, under Caliphate rule, it became known as Madînat al-Turâb, which means “city of earth” or “sand”. The sword was ...

The holy month of Ramadan is filled with rituals and festivities that date back centuries, among which are iconic treats ...

Wallada the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs alMustakfi murdered ... evocating the civil war and the fall of the Umayyad caliphate of alAndalus ...