In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...

In the turbulent days of the late third century CE, in the year 268, a frontier region of the Roman empire, Palmyra, crucial in the...

On the 29th November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Following decades of struggle between its Jewish and...

Shah Abbas I, the ruler of the Safavid empire from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, was accorded a legendary reputation...

The Timurid and Safavid empires were vast and in perennial fluctuation. This meant that the leaders of these polities required highly...

Legend has it that coffee beans were first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat herder who had noticed his goats become more energetic and...

Any peace process involving the presence of a third party raises questions as to the nature and extent of this participation. With...