Historian Mohamed Afifi’s new book offers an alternative reading of the history of Ottoman Egypt “How could we qualify the Ottoman’s annexation of the Arab countries or the arrival of Sultan ...

Analysts say the map of the Middle East could be redrawn for the first time in a century. The end of WWI almost 100 years ago signaled the death of the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to make lessons in the Arabic-alphabet Ottoman language compulsory in high schools -- a highly symbolic move which enraged secularists who claim ...