From the Arab world to the Pacific coast of America by way of Spain and Mexico came a system of administration that served California in the years before it joined the Union.

On Americas 200th birthday Aramco's US employees show their fellow workers in three Saudi Arabian oil towns how they celebrate a real old-fashioned Fourth.

For its 100th birthday America staged an International Exhibition in the city where independence was declared - and three Middle Eastern states joined the celebration.

Lebanese-Americans in a New England city take a look at their cultural heritage - and put some of it on display for their fellow townspeople.

In the heartland of America, five times a day, a tightly knit group of Muslims—whose families settled in Cedar Rapids at the turn of the century—face Mecca in prayer.

At Washington's new National Air and Space Museum, an Egyptian-born American geologist uses space-age techniques to look at the earth and the planets.