UAB will celebrate Turkish history, arts and culture with lectures, music, cuisine, a panel discussion and other events. Titled "Legacy of an Empire: A showcase of Turkish-Ottoman Arts and Culture," ...

high angle view of woman relaxing in foam. Ask anyone who has been to a hammam, or bathhouse in Turkey and they will tell you that they have never felt so clean as after a traditional Turkish bath.

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

Nurhan Atasoy, the grand dame of Ottoman history and chronicler of its artistic wonders, may well spark another revolution with her new work, Impressions of Ottoman Culture in Europe: 1453–1699.

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

Picture yourself biting into a delicate piece of baklava while sipping Turkish coffee in Istanbul, or savoring a perfect crème brûlée during an afternoon break in a Parisian café. Around the world, ...

I have been reading Jewish children’s picture books to kids for a decade-and-a-half, and I always know the book paints a real picture of Jewish peoplehood if it prompts children to ask three questions ...