Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
1/6/2013 1:35:56 PM
A historic landmark in Najaf Iraq, Khan Al-Shilan, is brought back to life as a museum capturing antiquities and paintings from the city of Najaf during the 20th century
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Arts & Culture
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Film
11/28/2012 3:46:59 PM
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan accused of artistic tyranny for strongly condemning a TV show that revolves around the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
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Timeout
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Lectures & Book Signings
11/11/2012 10:25:07 PM
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Books
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World
9/14/2012 11:26:26 AM
Hasan Cemal, a columnist with the Milliyet daily, and the grandson of WWI Ottoman Empire general Cemal Pasha, lays out the evolution of his thinking on the issue in the book '1915: The Armenian Genocide'
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Folk
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Folk Arts
4/29/2012 11:26:15 AM
As part of this year's Spring Festival, Turkish shadow puppet master, Cengiz Özek, brought his famous shadow theatre play, The Garbage Monster, to Cairo and talks with Ahram Online about it's history and fascination today
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World
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Region
4/7/2012 12:52:37 PM
Thousands of Christians congregate near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday
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Arts & Culture
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Film
3/5/2012 5:08:31 PM
Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and regional diplomacy; now comes an epic about the 15th century fall of Constantinople that fuses national pride with Hollywood-style ambition
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World
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International
1/31/2012 5:07:17 PM
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan praises move by group of French senators to block law banning Armenian genocide 'denial'
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World
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International
1/23/2012 12:29:30 PM
Turkey warns of new and permanent measures against Paris in case the French senators voted on a bill to make it illegal to deny the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide
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World
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International
1/7/2012 1:19:50 PM
A Turkish hacking group threatens it could initiate attacks against French websites causing millions of euros in damage
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World
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Region
12/25/2011 5:59:23 PM
Turkey accuses France of breaking promise to drop bill criminalising the denial of genocide in Armenia by Ottomans in 1915
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World
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International
12/22/2011 4:28:43 PM
Turkey recalls the French ambassador after the French lower house of parliament approved a bill that criminalises the denial of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, imposing sanctions on Paris on Wednesday
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World
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International
12/17/2011 5:41:33 PM
Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan slams France's passed legislation on criminalising the denial of the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman reign as genocide, telling France to study its history rather than Turkey's
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Heritage
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Islamic
11/27/2011 12:29:49 PM
Manuscripts confiscated from American tourist arriving in Cairo from Istanbul
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Books
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9/19/2011 9:20:40 PM
Historian Mohamed Afifi’s new book offers an alternative reading of the history of Ottoman Egypt
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Books
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Review
9/12/2011 8:02:37 PM
A timely book by historian Mohamed Afifi offers an alternative reading of the history of Ottoman Egypt
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World
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International
9/11/2011 5:29:48 PM
Thousands of Armenians gathered for a mass in a 10th century church which is one of the rare traces of what was once a large Armenian community in Turkey under the Ottoman rule
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Books
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Review
8/7/2011 11:39:24 AM
Mohamed Afifi's historical research goes against the grain with regard to the role of the Ottomans in Arab history
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Egypt
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Politics
7/4/2011 1:51:31 PM
Turkey's Foreign Minister visits Cairo, answering questions on Syria, Libya, NATO, and lays groundwork for PM Erdogan's upcoming visit to form an Egypt-Turkey council
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World
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International
4/24/2011 1:36:19 PM
Armenia's relations with Turkey remain tainted by a bloody history marked Sunday
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