On an uncharacteristically rainy day in March, Orange County native Yousef Hilmy, founder and creative director of Minaret Records, stood outside the glass door of a nondescript venue in Mid-City.

Architecture studio Altqadum has revealed the Bab Al Salam Mosque in Muscat, Oman, which is formed of five geometric volumes and has a cone-shaped minaret. Recently opened in the Omani capital ...

This drawing, the design for a parachute ... the story goes, leapt from the minaret of the Cordoba mosque in 852, and suffered only minor injuries. So why is Leonardo remembered as the inventor ...

Donate now. The Los Angeles-based record label Minaret Records, which has become a haven for artists in the L.A. jazz scene, is holding its second annual winter festival. It'll be a weeklong ...

Iraqi police say an explosion has damaged one of the most important Islamic architectural monuments. The spiral minaret, in the town of Samarra, is more than 1,000 years old. Police say insurgents ...

A decision by Iraqi officials to demolish a 300-year-old religious spire and tourist attraction in the city of Basra has prompted outcries from the local community. For three centuries, the al ...

Scaffolding surrounds the top of the minaret of the medieval Koutoubia Mosque ... cool contemporary design, and perhaps North Africa’s best restaurants and nightlife, but also lending moral ...

Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday. Built in 1727, the 11-meter ...