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When Life Magazine Covered a Pakistani Wedding: A 1955 Photo Story
A trip down memory lane to LUMS founder Syed Babar Ali's 1955 Washington wedding. Some photographs do not just record a moment. They preserve a whole world. In the summer…
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What If Hollywood Discovered Mohenjo-daro Instead of Troy?
Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey has renewed interest in the legends of…
What Cars Were Made Of: 250 Years of Evolution
From a wooden steam cart in 1769 to today's aluminium-wired electric machines,…
Umar Marvi, a Resistance in Sindhi Discourse
Of the seven queenly figures that appear in Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai’s…
Two and a Half Centuries of American Independence
The bicentennial year of the Declaration of Independence provides an opportunity not…
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Qailulah, the Sunnah Nap Backed by Science
Qailulah, the midday rest encouraged in Islam, is a 1,400-year-old…
Al-Jazari: The 12th-Century Muslim Engineer Who Built Robots
More than 800 years ago, a Muslim engineer was building…
Rattanbai Jinnah: The Woman Behind Pakistan’s Founding Father
The Woman History Nearly Forgot History remembers Muhammad Ali Jinnah…
Mor Tho Tillay Rana: The Centuries-Old Sindhi Folk Song Captivating the Internet Once Again
A centuries-old Sindhi folk song from Pakistan has found an…
The Muslim Cartographer Whose World Map Was Used for 300 Years
A 12th-century Muslim scholar drew a world map so accurate…
The 1,000-Year-Old Cookbook That Still Has Usable Recipes
A cookbook written in Baghdad over 1,000 years ago still…
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Pakistani Voice That Captivated the World
Few artists have carried the sound of Pakistan across the…
Chaukandi Tombs: Pakistan’s Open-Air Museum of Stone Carving
Hidden on the outskirts of Karachi lies one of Pakistan's…
The Muslim Woman Who Founded the World’s Oldest University
A Tunisian woman built the world's oldest university nearly 1,200…