Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way ...

A full-page Jesse Tree introduces the Psalms in the Tickhill Psalter, a 14th-century illuminated manuscript on view through ...

Benjamin Obinim's deeply spiritual family thought he was being plagued by demons when he killed his mother and seriously ...

“He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the ...

From Andean folk celebrations to circus-infused classics, local stages are offering a diverse slate of classical and ...

The “Palestine Committee Zurich” is well-known. It did organize rallies with the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine ...

Greg Dulan, owner of soul food institution Dulan's on Crenshaw, is the 2025 LA Times Gold Award honoree, a prize created by ...

Once a jewel of French research, Islamology began to decline in the 1980s, but the 2015 attacks forced authorities to refocus ...

"I saw my son outside the door of my daughter with a knife, so I asked what was going on. Usually he is someone who listens ...

A church in Lagos has made its Mass more accessible and inclusive of blind and deaf people. It is part of a larger push in ...