After the fall of the Visigoths, the Umayyads swept through Iberia. But in the Asturian hills, Pelayo made a stand that lit the first fire of resistance Cleaning woman shot and killed after arriving ...

KARACHI: A lecture about ‘The Umayyad Caliphate that was Cordoba’ by a leading historian from Spain, Dr Eduardo Manzano Moreno, organised by the Mohatta Palace Museum and Endowment Fund Trust for ...

COUNTRIES fall, which becomes a lesson in the chapters of history when there is deliberate dodging of responsibility by leaders, and when they leave the affairs and responsibilities to the mediocres ...

When a syrian named abd al-Rahman arrived in Spain in 755, a booming Islamic empire stretched from Asia Minor to the Pyrenees. But this member of a leading Damascus family, the Umayyads, was not after ...