Are we really only six months into the commemoration of the Great War's centenary? If the relentless media bombardment, especially along the Western Front, has caused battle fatigue, relief is at ...

“The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East” (Basic Books, $32, 512 pages) by Eugene Rogan fills many of the gaps. Rogan’s presentation of a crucial part of that ...

This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering ...

The greatest early modern authority on Ottoman Greece was Martin Cruisius – a man who had never left Germany.

The fall of the Ottoman Empire almost exactly a century ago opened up the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula to major transformations, with many of their consequences continuing ...

It is time to “breathe new life into a subject that is often treated as relatively obscure”, writes Gingeras, because the fall of the Ottoman Empire “is not merely a Turkish story ...

What's more, the Ottomans had no right to claim a title which could certainly only go to an Arab, although there was some debate as to whether it should fall to the Prophet's kin or be the result ...

In the century since the fall of the Ottomans, no political project has proved more successful or more calamitous than Arab nationalism, writes Tarek Osman Modern Arab nationalism was born in the ...

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. By David Fromkin. Holt, Henry & Company; 688 pages; $26 Tensions in the Middle East are a ...

Jahgaga opened the event by discussing the process of nation-building that was set in motion by the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. She emphasized the secular, multiethnic nature of her ...