North Africa’s influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale.
Tag: Ottoman Empire
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Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead
The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.
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Are Armenians Being Ethnically Cleansed — Again?
Azerbaijan is blockading the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and people are dying.
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How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power
Turkey’s president has made a spectacle of the Ottoman past, using monuments and TV shows to rally his voters. His cultural opponents have faced censorship, or jail.
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A Rival for Erdogan Emerges as Opposition Parties Pick a Candidate
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of Turkey’s largest opposition party, and his allies are looking to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who they say has damaged the country’s democracy.