The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

"From then on, wearing black became their customary attire. "During the Umayyad Caliphate era, they would wear white clothing upon the death of their king to differentiate themselves from the ...

The first two episodes of Muawiya, an eponymous 30-part Ramadan series about the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty ... Rashidun (rightly-guided) caliphate. A screengrab from the ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Damascus, SANA- For the first time since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s criminal and oppressive regime in Syria, Syrian citizens gathered in Umayyad Square in the capital, Damascus, to celebrate ...

As the current political administration actively seeks to otherize non-white people, Netflix’s Black Stories collection resonates more powerfully than ever. Celebrating Black cinema is easy with ...

It was here that the Umayyads established the first great Islamic empire, making Damascus their capital in 661 CE. Even after the Abbasid caliphate shifted power to Baghdad, Damascus retained its ...

White T-shirts get a lot of attention, but let’s not forget their equally versatile counterpart: the exceedingly wearable, deceptively simple black T-shirt. It’s a staple you can wear to work ...