Long before the rise of Islam, the Middle East was home to powerful kingdoms, complex religions, and vast trade networks that ...

Iranian documentary filmmaker and female rights activist Mojgan Ilanlou was arrested in Tehran on Sunday and then held for 24 hours, to be freed late Monday. Ilanlou’s detention and the sentence for ...

International sales company Andana Films has acquired Islamic State documentary “Rojek,” which has its North American premiere in Hot Docs‘ Canadian Spectrum section on Saturday. The film, which had ...

Militants unleashed a wave of attacks in Iraq on Thursday, mainly targeting Shiite areas in and around the capital of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, authorities told the ...

(RNS) — In May of 2022, in the middle of her master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School, Ariella Gayotto Hohl lost her father to cancer. Five thousand miles away from her home in Brazil, she never ...

FRONTLINE first reported on the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early February 2014, months before the group made international headlines declaring its own caliphate. Since then, ...

(RNS) — ‘Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love,’ premiering Friday (Aug. 22), seeks to better understand the wisdom in five stories of various types of love. (RNS) — In May of 2022, in the middle of her ...