Regional conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, along with tensions between the US and China, Israel and Iran and Russia and ...

From 1920, when England took control (from the once-powerful Ottoman Empire) over the land along the Mediterranean Sea then known as Palestine – along with Transjordan, on the other side of the ...

Before the Nakba . Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years until it was captured by Great Britain at the end of World War One (1914-18).

What did the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, ... This almost chemical transformation is the backdrop against which votes affirmed the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. Here, then, ...

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. ... Israel/Palestine. VanderWolf-Images / iStock via Getty Images.

The Ottoman Empire lasted from around 1300 until 1922, and at various points in its history ruled present-day Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, and beyond.

What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ’30s, when Britain’s empire was in its twilight years? What did the ...