Galleries such as the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London are examples of how architecture can turn a gallery into a landmark, contributing to the experience of viewing historical art ...
In the heart of Zamalek, nestled between the streets of Al Sheikh Al Marsafi and Omar Al Khayam, the Islamic Ceramics Museum ...
Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University organised a lecture by Prof. Sara Mondini, Department of Languages and ...
It's known as the "City of Jasmine" and people first settled there in the 3rd millennium BC - but tourists are warned against ...
Thousands of beads were hand-carved, using coloured stone and driven into the wood, using copper nails. The natural grain of ...
Travelling on the high-speed train from medieval Samarkand to modern Tashkent, Beverley Watts first takes in the ancient ...
As a non-Jew or Muslim, I have always been interested in Jerusalem as the ancient Holy City, tossed back and forth between ...
Jerusalem was surrendered to the Crusaders by al-Kamil in a peace treaty in 1229 but was recaptured by the Khawarizmians in ...
Design by Maitane Romagosa for Thrillist Rich people don’t always have good taste, but in the case of those old world tycoons ...
Prologue: The ambiguous dream of Western civilization The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream ...
Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art and architecture, has been ...