A Brooklyn public school is under fire after one of its teachers displayed a map showing Middle East geography that left out Israel, angering parents and other New Yorkers across the city, according ...

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I’m not the first – nor will I be the last– to argue this: it’s time to decolonize not only our lands but also our language. The phrase “Middle East” looks harmless on a page, yet it smuggles in an ...

If you ranked the civilizations that have most affected the course of human development, Persia would be near the top of the list. We forget this because in recent centuries, the states that have ...