Historical
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Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the…
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Hagia Sophia: turning this Turkish treasure into a mosque is at odds with its Unesco status
The decision to convert the building in Istanbul, Turkey from a museum back into a mosque has divided opinion. Senija…
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What the West can learn from Ukraine’s treatment of Soviet monuments
KYIV — Before Ukraine declared independence in 1991, statues of Vladimir Lenin were an inescapable part of the landscape. Veronika…
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A Turkish magazine wants the caliphate back. Controversy followed
A Turkish government-aligned news magazine has triggered a debate in Turkey, with its new front page suggesting the time has…
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Tayyip Erdogan joins thousands at Hagia Sophia for Friday prayer
Some were seen holding Turkish and Ottoman flags. Sana Sikander The Siasat Daily ISTANBUL – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan joined…
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German court convicts 93-year old man for Nazi crimes
Bruno D. had acknowledged his presence at the camp but argued that did not amount to guilt Arab News BERLIN,…
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Friday essay: the forgotten German botanist who took 200,000 Australian plants to Europe
Dr Johann August Ludwig Preiss (1811–1883) played a significant role in this evolving story as the first professional botanist to…
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Murder on the Middle Passage by Nicholas Rogers review – slavery and the British empire
You are trapped in a net cast by a white man reeking of rum and smoke, and then dragged miles…
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Blissett has a point: how do we learn from past if we hide it?
To recap, Luther Blissett was one of three Watford people – Anthony Joshua and John Barnes were the others –…
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Did Putin Get the Origins of World War II Right?
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the start of World War II, Russian president Vladimir Putin published a major article in…
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‘Palace letters’ between Sir John Kerr, Queen released, revealing information about Gough Whitlam and 1975 constitutional crisis
The 211 letters exchanged between Sir John Kerr and the palace at the time of the dismissal are this morning…
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Erdogan Is Erasing Ataturk’s Stamp On Turkey
Under normal circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics…
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How the Buddha became a Christian saint
It was available in over 60 versions in the main languages of Europe, the Christian East and Africa. Philip C.…
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High stakes in a Himalayan hotspot
And on the border between China and India in the remote reaches of the Himalayas, that’s exactly what Beijing stands…
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UNESCO statement on Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Paris, Friday 10 July – The Director-General of UNESCO deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities, made without prior discussion,…
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How humans are altering the tides of the oceans
In the mid-2000s Talke was a postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University, studying the river Ems that empties into the North…
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