At a recent lecture hosted by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Yasir Suleiman, professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge guided the audience through the ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and ...

In January 1919, two disparate Ukrainian states – the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic – merged into one.

But which were the largest ... the north and the Ottoman Empire in the south. After that, the Russians began a long trek east, conquering new lands in Siberia and crossing the Bering Strait into North ...

Political scientist Mark Leonard has found that people around the world are far more optimistic about Trump's presidency than ...

Edwards was curious about the file, so she took it to Ahmad Mustafa, an Arabic linguist friend who worked in her building at ...

The khaliat al nahl, warmed so that top gets crisp and the cheese starts ... roasted beans had found their way throughout the Ottoman Empire and into Europe, where fashionable coffee houses ...

Kuleba worked as a minister for over four years through most of Russia’s full-scale invasion until his resignation in September during the biggest ... the Ottoman Empire, Japan, and Yugoslavia.

A group of researchers from the National Technical University of Athens has conducted an ambitious geophysical study to ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to ... a united Muslim Empire included ...

I wonder what that says about how institutions are built, be that from the top down, by sort of hegemonic powers like ... United Kingdom and France to divide up the remanent of the Ottoman Empire in ...

Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...