Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...

A new study ranks Spain’s cities by friendliness, revealing where locals are most welcoming — and where visitors feel it ...

Zahira, the short-lived administrative capital built by Almanzor in the late 10th century as a symbol of his power and a ...

Not long after documentary filmmaker Rachel Mason began looking into the gruesome 1990 cold-case murder of gay porn actor Bill Newton in Hollywood, Newton's former boyfriend, Marc ...