During the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century, the Yazidi community played a crucial but often overlooked role in ...

What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ...

The Ottoman Empire is one of the most important and influential major empires in history, though it is sometimes overlooked in the West (which may have something to do with the Christianity-versus ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

Rageh Omaar traces the history of the Ottoman empire. A super-power of a million square miles, it matched the glories of Ancient Rome and collapsed less than a hundred years ago ...