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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Historians have said that the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers building an Israelite presence in Egypt may have origins in the reign of the Hyksos, a group of Canaanite tribes.

The tribes were named after the 12 sons of the patriarch Jacob and believed to be their direct descendants. As God's people ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

The formation of the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary umbrella group led by prominent Sinai militia leader and businessman Ibrahim Al Organi, has caused controversy in Egypt. The union ...

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...

In the latter part of the twelfth century, a legend appeared which persisted for several centuries and reached Egypt, Palestine ... as the home of the ten lost tribes. Persistent rumor had it ...