Novedades

Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country's goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran's political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today's Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of Hobby Lobby, announced a purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold.

Among the world’s most recognizable man-made structures, the Dome of the Rock–known in Arabic as the Qubbat as-Sakara–is also one of its most mysterious. Although much of the Dome’s construction, reconstruction, and later additions are well-known from historical texts and archeological work, what it represents, why it was built where it was, and even its use remain the subject of scholarly controversy.

Who really built Europe's finest Romanesque monuments? Clergymen presiding over holy sites are credited throughout history, while highly skilled creators remain anonymous. But the buildings speak for themselves.

The Book of Joram By Mark Uram What if Genesis and Exodus were never myth or metaphor—but fragmented memories of a real covenant? The Book of Joram is a sacred restoration of humanity’s earliest spiritual inheritance—bridging the God of Abraham with the Creator of the heavens, the earth, and the Sun. Written in the cadence of ancient scripture, this revelatory manuscript resurrects what was lost, redacted, or buried beneath empire, translation, and the passage of time. From Eden to Egypt, from Cain to Canaan, from Abram to Akhenaten—this is the journey of covenant, betrayal, ...

Where is the driving force for change? Who envisions a better future, crafts the path to democracy, and strategizes the movement? Who fuels it with revolutionary zeal and the will to power? And where is the force that can fulfill the unfinished promise of Iran's Constitutional Revolution? In three words: The Iranian Citizenry. Thirty years before Iran's Constitutional Revolution, the treatise One Word (Yek Kalameh) ignited a movement—challenging absolute monarchy, advocating the rule of law, and empowering the people.

Palestina, escribió Mahmoud Darwish, quien fue considerado el poeta nacional de ese pequeño pero importantísimo pueblo, “es el corazón del Medio Oriente y el centro de la lucha por la justicia y la dignidad humanas". Hoy más que nunca, el lector desea conocer la compleja historia de esta nación repartida geográficamente en dos porciones, a fuerza de las circunstancias —la Franja de Gaza y el Banco Occidental, también llamado Cisjordania. El 7 de octubre de 2023, la organización terrorista Hamas lanzó desde Gaza un brutal ataque contra civiles israelíes, creando escenas dignas...