Warfare during Spring and Autumn period After having read the English translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Ann...

The Spring and Autumn Annals (or Chunqiu 《春秋》), one of the Five Classics of the Ru canon, is – on the surface – a rather dry, terse chr...

Catholic Church in Luoyang’s Old City Those of you who follow my blog with regularity will probably be expecting me to comment on the rece...

I just watched the award-winning (and -deserving) 2015 Jordanian film Theeb . Briefly: it’s both a Western film and a bildungsroman . Th...

German soldiers and Polish police collaborators, 1943 For those of you who are surprised by the recent legislation banning criticism of N...

Shiblî Shumayyil It’s a true pity that John at EifD isn’t blogging anymore. His brief biographical sketch of Shiblî Shumayyil, a Syrian C...

In the interests of giving a clearer understanding of the man whom I briefly introduced in my last blog post, I am here presenting some d...