Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boun ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

This is a review of an exceptional photo book, Images of Palestine (1898-1946). The book is a collection of photographs that ...

The volatile Donald Trump seems an unlikely harbinger of peace in West Asia, but he might be the only hope to rein in an ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

In November 2017, after a lengthy meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump boasted that he and Xi can solve “probably all” the world’s problems. Today, he believes he alone can solve ...

It will take years of rebuilding after deliberate damage inflicted on it day after day by the Israelis ... But Trump, Netanyahu and their allies want to wipe the idea of Palestine off the map. They ...

Times Opinion spoke to five Palestinian scholars and analysts about what they believe the future holds for their people.