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

Egyptian artist seeks record with giant, hand-written Quran

Mummies discovered in ancient tomb near Egypt's Luxor

Egypt finds ancient burial site of crocodiles, infants and scorpions

The Mummy returns: How Egypt is waging war against the smugglers

Modern-day gladiators battle to save Libya's Roman ruins

Mali militant jailed for nine years for Timbuktu shrine attacks

Israel tries to stop historic trade being a relic of the past

History, not religion, has brought violence on Islamic societies

Basheer Nafi

Libya's 'pearl of the desert' among sites added to UN danger list

Egypt's enchanted Pyramid of Unas reopens to public after 20 years