At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in ...

Islamic’ and ‘State’ — put together evoke alarm rather than optimism. However, the Albanian proposal gives more hope than ...

Built 500 years ago, Istanbul's Zeyrek Cinili Hammam recently reopened after a restoration process that took 13 years — Ozan ...

World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...

For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they fell out of use in Turkey with the advent of running ...

When RNS reached out to the faith groups that have had a leading presence at recent COPs for comment on how they would ...

US President-elect Donald Trump during a rally in Colorado in October announced a plan called "Operation Aurora" to remove ...

Known today for its bohemian vibe and stunning architecture, Bitola hides a secret buried underground – a vast mass of ...

By T. D. Duff In late 1947 the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States reported: “A decision to partition Palestine, if ...

When Zionism as a political movement emerged, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. Thereafter it was mandated to Britain. In 1921, 80% of the “Palestine” region of the former Turkish ...

The early leaders of Zionist thought and action understood this, the colonial nature of Zionism. They had known that if it ...