The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of ...

Erdoğan has transformed Türkiye into a regional power, reasserting its legacy and challenging Western influence ...

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 ...

The 52-year-old gets 12 years in jail for ‘genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes’ by ISIL in 2015.

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

Henry Salt (1780-1827) served as British Consul-General in Cairo when the nominal Ottoman ruler Muhammad Ali (Mehemet Ali) Pasha – credited as the founder of modern Egypt – was approaching the height ...

Mario Tama / Getty Images Slavery reparations are restitution payments for slavery remitted to the descendants of enslaved people. In theory, American slavery reparations would be paid by entities ...

Thanks to the generosity of the Felix Scholarship Trust, Felix Scholarships are available to Indian nationals with first class degrees to pursue postgraduate studies at SOAS, University of London. The ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

Americans began to acknowledge the diversity of ethnicities and religions in the Caucasus: a fragmented region composed of Persians, Ottomans, Georgians, Yazidis, Jews, and even Buddhist nomads.

But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the Netherlands? And how is it reflected in the paintings of the time? This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of ...