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Louis Allday
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Photos: When a British intelligence officer documented his 1906 trip to the Persian Gulf and Iraq
Wilfrid Malleson covered Muscat, Kuwait, Basra, Baghdad and Mohammerah, among other places.
Louis Allday
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When a British officer wrote to London requesting financial aid for poor Indian women in Syria
Since 1926, the Consulate had been responsible for making cash payments to destitute British Indian subjects living in Syria, but funds were drying up.
Louis Allday
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Photos: The story of a 19th-century Iranian Shaikh who lost his Shaikhdom under the Pahlavis
Shaikh Khaz’al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī was loyal to the British hoping they would help him – but they didn’t.
Louis Allday
Trending
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‘I’m a small man but my music is huge’: Wasifuddin Dagar on the AR Rahman plagiarism row
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Three Doordarshan-era anchors recall what a dignified era of television news looked like
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Jailed, suspended, fired: How teachers in UP have paid a price for Hindutva campaigns against a song
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Why Assam’s farmers are furious at Himanta Biswa Sarma’s ‘fertiliser jihad’ jibe
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Are wrestlers giving up their protest? How a media narrative war has broken out
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Tune in: The fascinating story of how BBC started its first foreign language radio station in Arabic
And how it helped develop Educated Spoken Arabic as distinct from classical Arabic.
Louis Allday
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Photographs of tribal leaders from UAE back when it was under British control
In 1939, the Trucial Coast States were part of Britain’s Informal Empire in the Persian Gulf.
Louis Allday
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A drunken pilot, attempts to bomb Mecca and the formation of Saudi Arabia
The ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz enlisted a Russian pilot to take back Mecca from the forces of Ibn Sa’ud.
Louis Allday
Video
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Watch: Dense smoke and yellowish haze cover New York as a result of Canadian wildfires
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Watch: How this lone buffalo outwits a pride of lions to escape an attack
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Watch: Truck carrying cartons of beer overturns, passersby rush to steal bottles
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Watch: This version of Rema’s chart-topping hit ‘Calm Down’ has Tamil lyrics
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Watch: Dramatic sight of massive sandstorm enveloping western and northern parts of Rajasthan