Sept. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, the U.S. War Department organized the country's first standing army -- 700 soldiers who would serve for three years. In 1923, Britain began to govern ...

Annemarie Jacir balances raw emotion and intimate detail in an ensemble historical drama set during the British Mandate for Palestine, starring Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbas alongside lesser-known faces ...

In the Palestinian narrative, the events of 1947-1949 are referred to as the Nakba – “catastrophe” – in which some 750,000 Arabs fled or were driven from their homes. But the Palestinian disaster as ...