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

In pictures: Life in Palestine from 1890 to 1937

How the world’s oldest masks tell a story of Palestinian dispossession

In pictures: Inside the Marrakech palace built by a former slave

Egyptian architects win competition to restore Mosul mosque

Egyptian architects win bid to rebuild Iraq's Great Mosque of al-Nuri

In pictures: Prince Philip's history with the Middle East

Art and photography

In pictures: Impressions of a lost world in pre-independence Algeria

In pictures: One Syrian’s attempt to preserve the memory of Palmyra

The British cemetery home to Middle East poets, politicians and princes

Great Pyramid relic found in cigar box at university in Scotland

Palestine state

Israel plans to expand settlement cutting off Jerusalem from West Bank towns

Egypt: Anger at loan of Islamic artefacts to Saudi Arabia for two years