There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your ...

“Do high school students in the United States learn about the Armenian Genocide?” This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. K-12 education in the United States is highly decentralized and ...

One of the most immediate and obvious changes that WWI brought about was the collapse of longstanding empires. But what ...

New alliances and coalitions are brewing as we speak and the region by virtue of its geography, history and clashing ideologies will be a fount of global turbulence for the foreseeable future." – Mike ...

In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire extended its influence all the way to Southeast Asia, forging alliances and ...

Mehmed II, known as "The Conqueror," transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant Muslim superpower through military genius, administrative reform, and the monumental conquest of Constantinople.

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...

Erdoğan’s beliefs are increasingly evident beyond Turkey’s borders, too. The new regime in Syria has embraced Sharia as the ...

Syrian authorities were quick to condemn last month’s suicide attack on the Greek Orthodox Church of Mar Elias, which left 25 ...

Although it often ranks number two as a city in Greece, Thessaloniki is number one in the country when it comes to Greek ...

Such exchange is the locus of the Frist Art Museum’s summer show Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a traveling exhibition of ...

One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...