Most of my readers are quite familiar with the great rulers of the Renaissance: Henry VIII and his consecutive marital ...

The Hagia Sophia, a structure that has transcended time and purpose, stands today as a testament to human ambition and ...

There is more to a cup of Cyprus coffee than its strong, bitter taste. In a new book on the matter, Aspasia Papadima unfolds the secrets of the island’s national drink, looking at its roots, studying ...

In Italy too, during a July within Bein HaMetzarim, a decree was issued that would forever alter the life of a Jewish ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Türkiye and the wider Muslim world celebrate the fifth anniversary of the reconversion of the ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

Midnight at the Pera Palace is a vibrant, entertaining and dazzlingly original social history not only of the city of Istanbul at the dawn of the modern era, but also of the many worlds that ...

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed 'the only- begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the ...