US president Donald Trump’s proposal to annex the Gaza Strip and transfer its two million Palestinian inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has provoked a predictable outcry. Virtually all Arab states, led ...

Hammams—the public baths that have been an integral part of Istanbul life for centuries—can be found everywhere from the city's quiet historic neighborhoods to inside the best hotels in Turkey, and ...

The Green Line is a meandering boundary that stretches across approximately 500 kilometers, and it lies at the heart of many of the political and legal disputes in the Middle East.

This is not the first time large powers have colluded to negotiate new borders without the input of the people who live there ...

Ukraine has not been invited to a key meeting between American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia this week to decide what ...

Sit back, grab a hot cup of coffee, and find out how this warming, beautiful (and necessary) drink became so popular.

A son was born to Yakup, a converted Muslim Sipahi, and his Greek wife in the late 15th century in the village of Palaiokipos on Lesbos. This bicultural child, named Khizr, grew up with three brothers ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Even from the air they looked like ramparts between fortress Europe and the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire. (If you have any doubts about Turkey’s emergence as a regional superpower, visit the ...