FILE PHOTO: A general view shows part of the exterior of St. Catherine's monastery in south Sinai, Egypt, March 7, 2019. Picture taken March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo FILE PHOTO ...

One of the world’s most sacred religious sites is at risk of being “disfigured” by a luxury tourist resort, critics have warned. Egypt’s plan to redevelop the remote Mount Sinai, where God is said to ...

AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

When conducting historical research in the field of Japanese history, it is common practice to use ancient documents which remain throughout the country. Conversely, the medieval Islamic world has not ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. Dating back to the ...

Where God walked and monks pray / Robert S. Nelson -- Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F. Mathews -- The Sinai Codex Theodosianus : manuscript as icon / Father ...

Justiniac and post-Justiniac art. The mosaic in St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai -- Loca sancta and the representational arts of Palestine -- The Jephthah panel in the bema of the Church of St ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece said on Thursday it had agreed with Egypt on the future of St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship ...