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

Akbar the Great: How the Mughal emperor set an example for religious tolerance in India

'They turned like beasts against us': The exhibition linking modern and Roman refugee stories

Iraq war: When Baghdad fell, the country's treasures were lost

Was Blas Infante, the father of Andalusian nationalism, a crypto Muslim?

From Nezihe Muhittin to Sabiha Rifat : Five women who helped define modern Turkey

How Armenians in Egypt are preserving their heritage

Hidden tunnel discovered inside Egypt's Great Pyramid at Giza

Singapore’s Arab Street: A closer look at the community building a new legacy

Baghdad's House of Wisdom: Uniting East and West to pursue knowledge

Sudan Memory: The project digitising a country's history

'Thunderbolts and terror': How historic earthquakes destroyed Roman Antioch

Five inventions from ancient Egypt we still use