In the last 24 hours, 104 people have been killed in Gaza and a further 399 injured, the Hamas-run health ministry says in ...

The photo I’m describing wasn’t taken in 2025, but in 1917. Today Gaza is being destroyed by the armies of Israel and Hamas.

In the decades since the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the UK has broadly supported official recognition of a state of Palestine. So why has it taken more than a century for a government to sign up to it, ...

“The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, head of the Chair of ...

This documentary explores the little-known era known as the Sultanate of Women, when royal women wielded immense power in the Ottoman Empire. From inside the imperial harem, mothers and consorts of ...

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

The Ottoman Empire once ruled vast territories across North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Europe, shaping world ...

An inquiry into the University of Edinburgh has found it played an outsized role in the creation of racist pseudoscience and greatly profited from transatlantic slavery ...

Though it is almost forgotten today - suppressed, perhaps, by some squeamish historians - the Muslim trade in both black ...

Middle Eastern military supremacy has been the subject of global discussion this summer as Israel and Iran traded blows over ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...