On the holy ground where Moses was commanded to remove his sandals – together with all earthly logic – monks turn diversity’s polarizing forces to unity – some of the ways St. Catherine’s Monastery of ...

Mount Sinai & St. Catherine Monastery Tour This is a tour that leaves from Sharm El Sheikh and takes you to the peak of Mt Sinai and includes a tour of the St Catherine Monastery. In a hurry?

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt.

Would the area, like the site near St. Catherine’s Monastery, be interesting but not compelling? Hardly. Unlike the Sinai Peninsula, everything we saw in Saudi Arabia fit the biblical narrative ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...