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A civil defence member runs at a market hit by air strikes in Aleppo’s rebel-held al-Fardous district, Syria October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail


Tolerating Each Other and Accepting the Map

Tolerating Each Other and Accepting the Map

Don’t fall into the trap of history. It’s an enormous ambush. If you fearfully fall into it, it will turn into a field of hatred. It will raise your fears, your anxiety. It will ignite your feelings and sharpen your swords. It will reopen old wounds and awaken your...
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Rob and Melinda DeRocker own an 1843 house in Tarrytown, N,Y. While renovating, they found all kinds of souvenirs of past occupants including a player-piano roll, a child’s alphabet flash card, hand-painted ceramic tiles and a clay pipe. Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times


The History Hidden in the Walls

The History Hidden in the Walls

Once you start digging — whether excavating long-populated urban land for a commercial project or tearing down the walls of a house — you never know what you’ll find. It might be a ritual object placed there to ward off evil spirits 300 years ago, or a few decades...
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King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture


Dhahran, from Oil to Culture

Dhahran, from Oil to Culture

King Salman inaugurated King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, known as Ithraa, which was built by Aramco to spread culture – not only in Saudi Arabia – but also in the Arabian Peninsula and many other regions through its interaction with local and...
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Credit Lauren Tamaki


Which Martin Luther King are We Celebrating Today?

Which Martin Luther King are We Celebrating Today?

Newburyport, Mass. — Every year on the third Monday of January, Americans of all races, backgrounds and ideologies celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He is rightly lionized and sanctified by whites as well as blacks, by Republicans as well as Democrats. It...
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (2nd-left) attends the
reopening of the Museum of Islamic Art in the capital Cairo on January
18, 2017 (AFP Photo/STRINGER)