This was not Solomon’s Ophir, but Great Zimbabwe, which had most recently been the capital of the Mutapa state and the largest pre-colonial settlement in Central Africa. Arab merchants, jockeying for control in the power vacuum left by the decline of the Mutapa state, introduced the idea..…

Much has been written about Palestinian refugees, and little attention has been paid to nearly one Jewish refugees forced to flee their Arab homelands North Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Levant and beyond.. The number of Jews who fled their Arab homelands during Israel's founding..…

MENA Economic Monitor,  Inequality, Uprisings, and Conflict in Arab World,   World Bank, Middle East and North Africa Region, Washington, D.C.. ..…