“I wish to stop being Borges”
- Borges The journey – thankfully, not mine – begins in central Iraq. The protagonist turns twenty when his...

Mandaeans are the adherents of Mandaeism, a gnostic religion that originated in Mesopotamia in the first tree centuries CE. The majority of...

The description of the life of a social group that disintegrated decades ago and then disappeared almost without a trace is linked, no doubt, to...

The Skidi Pawnee sacrifice of a captive girl to the Morning Star has probably aroused more popular interest than any other purely tribal Indian...

Jinn (sg. jinni) are supernatural beings in Arabian folklore; some regard them as angels and some as demons, yet they are neither. While man was...

The gradual disintegration of the Byzantine Empire enabled the Mongol attacks in the thirteenth century to threaten the population of Asia Minor...