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

Abraham Rosenvasser: The Argentinian who helped save the treasures of Nubia

Avalanches, bandits, rock falls: The Middle East and North Africa's most daunting roads

The pillars of Rome: Why Italy has more obelisks than Egypt

In pictures: How Cairo's mosques tell Egypt's history

Nine different mosque designs from around the world

Residents fight to save iconic Cairo houseboats from demolition

Five of the Middle East's oldest cities that are still inhabited

In pictures: Palestinian villages before the Nakba

Osman Hamdi Bey: Artist, archaeologist and protector of Ottoman heritage

Five of the highest mountains in the Middle East and North Africa

Three medieval Muslim travellers who explored the world

Meatballs and militancy: How a Swedish king became the bane of the Ottoman Empire