History Today: Return of the Ayatollah: Iran’s Islamic Revolution

By Siavush Randjbar-Daemi – Published in History Today Volume 69 Issue 4 April 2019. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a lightning rod for the mass protests which overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979, but the causes of the Iranian Revolution lay elsewhere. On the afternoon of 11 February 1979, the top brass of the Imperial

History.com: This Day In History (18 August-1227): Genghis Khan dies

By History.com Editors. Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, dies in camp during a campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia. The great Khan, who was over 60 and in failing health, may have succumbed to injuries incurred during

Asharq Al-Awsat: ‘The Other’ as the Answer of… Aristotle

By Hazem Saghieh. “The relationship with the other” can perhaps sum up many of the problems we face in the era of identities. The earliest cultural response to this issue might be Aristotle’s. Indeed, the “master,” who wrote “The Poetics” 150 years after the era of Athenian tragedies, took the opposite position of Plato, who