EditorialFILE PHOTO: The head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, shakes hands with Saudi ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Al-Jaber at the Republican Palace in Sanaa
EditorialCoin, A.H. 164/A.D. 780, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Gold, Diam. 11/16 in. (1.7 cm), Coins, Issued during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi, this gold dinar was minted in the year A.H. 164 (A.D. 780). The inscription on its obverse proclaims th...