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At the Umayyad Mosque, I observed a change inside the courtyard: ... (2018), a socio-economic history and “Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe” ...

Córdoba in central southern Spain has one of the warmest beaches in Europe. Valdearenas Beach sits on the banks of a ...

The Dome of the Rock, an architectural masterpiece and Islam’s third most sacred site, is revealing its secrets to scholars who were granted groundbreaking access.

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Unlike its Gulf neighbours, many of which have gone full throttle into tourism megaprojects, Kuwait is taking a more measured ...

The first Eid al-Adha prayers were held in Syria on Friday after the fall of the Bashar Assad regime. Thousands of people flocked to the historically important Umayyad Mosque in the capital of ...

By the time we finished the final interview at our pop-up Monocle Radio booth at the Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Summit and ...

A man prays with a gun at his feet in Umayyad Mosque, in central Damascus, before midday Friday prayers during Eid, on June 6, 2025, in Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images) Syria's interim ...