Al-Shayyal argues that it was neither the French nor the British occupations that advanced translation significantly in Egypt ...

The "Sick Man of Europe" label, originating with the 19th-century Ottoman Empire, described nations in decline due to political, economic, and social issues. The Ottoman Empire faced military defeats, ...

FOR over 300 years, the closely-guarded secrets of the Ottoman Empire's luminous tilework was lost, but its rediscovery has ...

The cities might not seem similar today, but one thing Tripoli and Thessaloniki, Basra and Beirut, Sarajevo and Sana'a all once had in common is that just a little over a century ago they were all ...

An ornate image of bucolic gardens inhabited by lounging Turkish poets engaged in conversation took up the screen in Schermerhorn’s eighth floor lecture hall. Though seemingly purely decorative, these ...

It's April 24, 1915. Some 250 Armenian intellectuals are rounded up in Constantinople and imprisoned by Ottoman police. Known as “Red Sunday,” it is today a day of remembrance for a murderous ...