IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1978, Time magazine donated ...

Cardboard Cutouts of Khomeini Are Mocked Online A day after the anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s return from exile, the cardboard cutouts that stood in for the dead Iranian leader during ...

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated June 30, 1989) For more than a decade his dark brooding eyes, bushy eyebrows severely knit together, flowing white beard and ...

Both politicized the Shiite faith. While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed Shiite political culture, today we look at ...

A report about a covert effort to delay their release until after the 1980 presidential election drew anger, resignation and disbelief from the survivors of the crisis. By Michael Levenson The house ...

Saddam Hussein could have changed everything. In an ironic twist, the Iraqi dictator responsible for countless deaths across the Middle East once had the chance to eliminate the leader of the Iranian ...