With whom would Ottoman sultans marry?
BY EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI COLUMNS NOV 10, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3A view of Topkapı Palace, which served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans for centuries, with the […]
Coronavirus: Thai king self-isolates in Alpine hotel with harem of 20 women amid pandemic
Tens of thousands of Thais risk breaking law to criticise him online Source: Independent Thailand’s controversial king has been self-isolating in a luxury hotel in the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen with his entourage. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, also known as Rama X, is said to have booked out the entire […]
From the harem to Salomé: American Orientalism Painting as an Exploration of Changing Women’s Roles in the 19th Century
By Iram Ahmad MD In his 1580 essay, “On Presumption,” French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: … It is that I lower the value of the things I possess, because I possess them, and raise the value of things when they are foreign, absent, or not mine… between two similar […]