INTERVIEW: Nearly two decades after being put on trial for ‘insulting Turkishness’, Shafak has become one of the UK’s most ...

Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the ... forces during World War II. In his upcoming book How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United ...

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In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire ... Bell imagined “the history of Asia . . . spread out before me.

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A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

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