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'Batreeq': The Arabic word for penguin shows the language's ability to absorb and adapt

Classical Arabic dictionaries do not list penguins, for a simple reason: early Arab scholars catalogued animals they encountered in Arabia, North Africa and surrounding regions. C ...

‘It’s the historian’s job to be imaginative: to imagine other worlds, other kinds of lives, other ways of being’

The Mughal story, as Jagjeet Lally tells it, is less about crowns and conquest than about the quieter authority of documents and the steady shimmer of silver.

19 reads for when Emily Henry's 'People We Meet on Vacation' gives you a book hangover

Netflix is releasing a film adaptation of Emily Henry's "People We Meet on Vacation" on January 9. Here's what to read after ...