Teaching world history often feels like trying to pour the ocean into a teacup. Its vast scope and complexity can overwhelm both students and educators, reducing the subject to a fragmented parade of ...

The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee reaches a climax on Thursday with Juan ...

This talk examines the social history of oriental carpets, particularly the production and circulation of carpets by Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. It discusses the central role of mass ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

Turkey wants closer cooperation with Europe in return for security as the continent looks at ways to reduce reliance on Trump ...

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

Turkey is not the largest power interested in Africa. Its economic engagement, arms sales, and foreign aid are dwarfed by one or more of the major powers.

Drawing an analogy with the late Ottoman Empire, Mr. Kaplan thinks contemporary Russia is the “sick man of Eurasia.” But he stresses that Russia’s decline “is on a different scale entirely ...

In South Africa, Foreign Exchange Reserves are the foreign assets held or controlled by the country central bank. The reserves are made of gold or a specific currency. They can also be special ...

The Absa Manufacturing PMI is a monthly survey of purchasing managers in South Africa's manufacturing sector. The index provides leading indications of business conditions in the sector.

Suleiman’s reign from 1520 to 1566 is widely regarded as the golden age of the Ottoman Empire, which stretched from Baghdad and Cairo to the gates of Vienna, and ruled over 25mn people of every ...