Camels are an important part of the history and culture of the Middle East. They're also very popular with many of the 1 million tourists visiting Qatar for the World Cup. MARTÍNEZ: One camel tour ...

Osama bin Laden, the visual icon of terrorism in our fear-driven age, is gone. No one can replace him. Jihadists will doubtless commit new outrages and hatch new conspiracies. But warriors committed ...

Bulliet, a history professor at Columbia University and a former director of the Middle East Institute, offers a short, insightful book about Islam and Muslims that actually provides hope for the ...

The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships By Richard W. Bulliet Columbia University. 253 pp. $27.50 "Let's start with sex and blood." As an opening line, this is as memorable -- and as ...

Larry Mantle and two Mid-East scholars, Richard Bulliet from Columbia University and Mark LeVine from UC Irvine, focus on contemporary Egyptian history and why it has produced so many extremists. What ...

Columbia University historian Bulliet (The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization) admits he is not "a scientific researcher in the field of animal studies," but his book presents a provocative look ...

Editor’s Note: Richard W. Bulliet is professor of history emeritus at Columbia University and author of “The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions” (Columbia University Press, January 2016). The opinions ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard W. Bulliet (born October 30, 1940) is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, ...

Professor of History at Columbia University and author of Islam: A View from the Edge and The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization Never skip a beat on new music and news. Straight to your inbox, 3x ...