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Yemen is the home of the biblical ' Queen of Sheba ' - the leader of a trading state that flourished for over a thousand ye...

The southern coast of the Persian Gulf was known as the ' Pirate Coast ' - although the ruler of Sharjah wrote a book in 198...

Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. A few others claiming this mantle are Beirut & Byblos (...

Qatar has a population of 2.6 million of which 313,000 are citizens, and the rest are expatriates. An Expatriate is someone tempora...

As nations are a story, they need people willing to listen for them to be 'true'. The Middle East is one of the most contr...

After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, the Portuguese occupied the port of Muscat in Oman for 143 years (1507-1650). About 100 year...

Civilisation in Lebanon predates recorded history. The Canaanites and Phoenicians were a maritime culture that did exceptionally we...

' Divide and Rule ' was a strategy used by Empires to subjugate other groups while 'recognising' their self-determin...

The Kingdoms of Israel & Judah emerged in the Iron Age before being destroyed by a 300 year Mesopotamian, Neo-Assyrian Empi...

Although we conquered the seas long ago (ask the Polynesians ), islands and water are useful tools for otherwise purely imaginary bo...

Cairo, which now has a population of 9.5 million, has long been an important global city. It managed to avoid Europe's late middle age...

It is a sad truth that most of us don't know much about the world beyond our world. One of the ways we learn about new countries...

Large Scale Governments were originally forged through force and conquest. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed in 1932 after 3...

With Kingdoms starting to form around 3200-2800 BC, Iran was first unified under the Median Empire of 678-549 BC. Under Cyrus the G...