Heritage

'The mentality is changing': The awakening of Algeria's tourism industry

Algeria is dispelling its reputation for isolation as the government takes steps to position the North African country as a major tourist destination

‘In Oran, people live’: Algeria’s second-largest city improves its image

War in Sudan is ravaging its rich history

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel has destroyed Gaza's heritage sites, but it cannot erase my memories of them

Mohammed Mourtaja

Uzbek embroidery: How needle and thread has defied dictators and factories

'The last stop of Europe': In a remote Greek port, live like a pasha in an Ottoman palace

Namesake: Reflections on Nusaiba, a warrior woman of early Islam

Abdulhamid II: An autocrat, reformer and the last stand of the Ottoman Empire

Ghosts of Thessaloniki: How a quest for a table revealed much about a city's multilayered past

Boukoleon: The lost palace of Istanbul

Medieval prayer hall found under Mosul’s iconic al-Nuri mosque

Scars of war: The historic structures that fell during the Bosnian conflict

Jews of the East: Paris exhibition sheds light on Middle Eastern Jewish history

Five national flowers from the Middle East and the symbolism they hold

Five historic Middle Eastern treasures to check out in London

Turning Jordan's historic Hejaz railway line into a park for the people

Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old board game in Oman

The search for a Jewish history in Turkey before 1492

Four women other than Cleopatra that ruled Egypt

Inside Hisham's Palace, Palestine's lost Umayyad castle

Unesco adds Arabic calligraphy and Palestinian embroidery to heritage list