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

Quiz: Test yourself on the history of the Ancient Middle East and North Africa

Palestine state

Damascus Gate: The significance of the main entry into Jerusalem’s Old City

Wedding traditions from five countries across the region

Five new archaeological finds in the Middle East you should know about

Inside Australia’s diverse and longstanding Lebanese community

The Queen's gambit: The battle to return the ancient Libyan ruins in Windsor's Great Park

From the Achaemenids to the Mughals: A look at India's lost Persian history

How taking souvenirs from Iraq's looted heritage landscape can land tourists a death sentence

Five historic castles you should visit in Jordan

Tracing the history of the Mamluk carpets that dazzled the Mediterranean

In pictures: Tourists trickle back to Iraq after decades of war

In pictures: Palestinian women and anti-colonial resistance in the 1930s