For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

North Africa was an early cradle of Christianity ... depend on their prayers as if on God himself, through them the world is kept going." Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent ...

Islam arrived in North Africa (the Maghreb ... The entire inhabited world changed…" Excerpt from The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History by Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun, who lost both ...