With new high-speed trains complementing old school diesels, Turkey’s once undervalued rail system is enjoying a ...

Mallinder’s wife, professor Andrea Lavin (Sidse Babett Knudsen, soulful) is excited to learn that the Baghdad blast mentioned ... created” and the center of medieval learning, thought destroyed.

Holocaust Memorial Day has been formally marked in the UK since 2001. Holocaust education has been a compulsory component of state school curricula since 1991, with an expanded programme mandated in ...

immerses you into the atmosphere that existed some 15 centuries ago in what was the largest city in the medieval world, bigger than Baghdad and Byzantium, with its pagodas and lantern-lit streets.

Chaotic scenes, the BBC called them. Well, that was putting it mildly. One could only imagine the headlines if an African woman had been forced to run the gauntlet through a mob of smartphone-wielding ...

Today we know that the word “ta’rif” comes from the medieval Arabic for notification ... their name to the Attabiyah neighbourhood in Baghdad, famous for producing beautiful silk textiles.

In Baghdad, Ibn Sina (Avicenna ... discoveries and practices from Islam’s golden age. THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases ...

Thanks to the medieval setting, you’ll have plenty to ... Mirage will take you to the 9th century and into the city of Baghdad, where many things are afoot. The title takes place in the ...

Bush while he was giving a press conference in Baghdad. Insider's tip ... The Metropolitan Museum's centre of medieval art boasts interiors filled with Madonna and Child sculptures, paintings ...

The Baghdad skatepark provides a welcome means of escape for young Iraqis in a country that has endured decades of conflict and crisis — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Rukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a ...