With its convoluted history and ever-shifting borders, the Middle East isn’t an area that can be easily understood through words alone. Vox’s Max Fisher recognized this and compiled a treasure ...

Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today. Middle East History The fertile crescent, the ...

Contrary to his maps, Israel did not control the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or Gaza after its creation in 1948 on 80 percent of historic Palestine. These areas were occupied by Israel in ...

She keeps a map of the Middle East on her desk at Time Warner Cable and listens to Al Jazeera English on her computer throughout the workday. She and her daughter exchange e-mails daily and talk ...

In Washington’s ongoing debate about the cause of the continuing chaos in the Middle East, President George W. Bush stands condemned for the 2003 intervention that pushed Iraq into civil war ...

If you’re looking for historical sites to visit in the Middle East, Petra reigns supreme. It’s more of a city than single archaeological site and it’s roughly 2000 years old.

Even when the famed Kurdish general Salah ad-Din, the greatest Muslim hero in the history of the Crusades, took over a vast swathe of the Middle East toward the end of the 12th century, the ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.