I thought we might be on to a winner with this book after the opening sentence. ‘From an early age,’ Simon Mayall writes, ‘I ...

The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we ...

Restoration of the Hagia Sophia dome in Istanbul (Constantinople) will begin this spring, overseen by the Directorate General ...

When we think of the great empires of history, the Romans tend to steal the show. Although their empire arguably has had the greatest worldwide cultural impact, it was by no means the largest ever to ...

Enormous numbers of Iranian missiles were launched against Israel from Iranian soil in April and October of this year, and sporadically by the Houthis. Israel’s missile defense systems, augmented by ...

Hezbollah was founded by the imperialist regime that came to power in Tehran in 1979 as the Lebanese branch of its Islamic ...

In Spain, Christian kingdoms were slowly pushing south; in Sicily, over 200 years of Islamic rule had been ended by the ...

So greatly did they revere wisdom that Chrysostom named the great cathedral in Constantinople Saint ... despite the Muslim conquest and centuries of oppressive domination.

Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar is one of the most bustling spots in one of the world’s greatest, busiest cities. After a ...

We pause at 5 p.m. as the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer ... It was built shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and is one of the world’s earliest precursors to the shopping ...