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

Abdulmecid II: Artist, musician and the last caliph of Islam

Ukraine: Seven of the country's most important mosques

A glimpse of life in the Middle East before colonial borders

Demi Lovato claims to have bought ancient Egyptian artefacts. Experts aren't so sure

Saint Catherine: A closer look at one of Egypt's most holy cities

Egypt's historic Saint Catherine 'destroyed' by new development project

Vikings, human sacrifice and bad hygiene: Early Islamic descriptions of Russia and Ukraine

Who are the Crimean Tatars? The Turkic Muslim minority loyal to Ukraine

In pictures: the female beekeeper of war-torn Sanaa

#MyHistoricalThobe: Online movement celebrates Palestinian heritage

The Barbarossa brothers and Sayyida al-Hurra: Three Muslim corsairs who took on Europe

In pictures: Baghdad’s iconic mausoleums under threat