AMMAN — Arab and Ottoman ruling elites and dynasties relied for centuries on the class of the slave-warriors called Mamluks, who were ethnically diverse and usually came from the Turkic ...

led his army out of the city to fight the Ottoman Turks who were commanded by the brutal sultan Selim I “The Grim” but the Mamluks had not had to fight in earnest for eighty years and their ...

After suffering Egyptians from the oppression of the Mamluks and despotism clump the people and organize popular resistance to eliminate them and get rid of the ruling Circassians and the ...

The status of the Temple Mount and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem has become a destabilizing issue in Israel and the Middle East. The demand for the “liberation” of al-Aqsa has become the battle ...

Besides causing immense human suffering, Israel has destroyed museums, religious buildings, historic artefacts and ...

Jerusalem was surrendered to the Crusaders by al-Kamil in a peace treaty in 1229 but was recaptured by the Khawarizmians in ...

The impact of the unprecedented Israeli war has left Gaza’s heritage severely damaged, mirroring the struggles of its people.

Isabel Arriaga Lozano carefully fills a small pastry with a savory mix of meat, potatoes and chili pepper. She is crafting a ...

He cites the Talmudic Age, Crusader Rule, the Mamluks, 400 years of Ottoman Turk rule. Next question. What do the “Palestinians” want? Khaled Abu Toameh says on July 12, 2011 and ...

It is brought to the African continent with the Turkic Tulunid dynasty in the 9th century but pursued by Mamluks and Ottomans in North Africa. With global popularity, yoghurt's term was adopted in ...

One year on since Israel's assault on Gaza began, a series of harrowing images show just how much the Palestinian territory has changed.