Europe as a ‘garden’ full of plunder and cruelty
BY HILAL KAPLAN OCT 31, 2022 – DAILY SABAH The bust of Belgium’s King Leopold II is smeared with paint and graffiti on the grounds of the Royal Museum for […]
A word about institutional racism in Britain
Dr Steve Cushion on the thoughtless use of terms like ‘plantation’ by companies LettersSun 30 Oct 2022 The glorification of the plantation is dog-whistle politics – a nod and a wink […]
My father’s family kept slaves – and he defended it. Acknowledging it matters
Amid a rise of laws forbidding discussions of racist histories, sharing our ancestors’ shameful wrongdoings is more urgent than ever Maud Newton; Wed 14 Sep 2022 Source: The Guardian My […]
India now drops Gujarat riots, Mughal history from textbooks
In late April, chapters on the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts from the class XI-XII curricula File photo: A Hindu mob waving swords […]
Africa and the Theory of Independence
Ahmad KamalHISTORY 6th March 2022 ©Shutterstock Ahmad Kamal, Ghana On 22 February 2022, in a statement to an Emergency Session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, Martin Kimani […]
1,898-year-old bronze military diploma found in Turkey’s Perre
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ADIYAMAN, TURKEY DEC 29, 2021 – 1:25 PM GMT+3A close-up of the military diploma found in the ancient city of Perre, Adıyaman, southeastern Turkey, Dec. 28, 2021. (AA) […]
British politics and religion: History repeats itself
BY MUHAMMET ALI GÜLER DEC 06, 2021 – 9:35 PM GMT+3The British flag flies above Victoria Tower and the Palace of Westminster in London, U.K., Nov. 22, 2021. (Photo by […]
Diving into the past: The Black divers searching for slave shipwrecks
Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN • Updated 4th August 2021 Editor’s Note —(CNN) — As he slipped through the kelp forest to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Kamau Sadiki’s eyes hooked onto something resembling […]
Gateway to Turkey’s city of gladiators raised once again
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA MUĞLA ARTS JUN 14, 2021 Archaeologists and conservationists in southwestern Turkey’s Muğla have recently finished restoring the northern city gate connecting the ancient cities of Stratonikeia, once […]
Muslims and Christians should learn from their shared history
SAUD AL-SARHAN AND JOHNNIE MOORE April 21, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/4j7wx For the last couple of years, billions of Muslims and Christians have been enjoying religious holidays that fall at […]
Veiled in history: how women have been covered up
Source: Swiss Info In recent years it has mainly been Christian countries, especially in Europe, which have had issues with women wearing the veil, seen today as a form of […]
2020 appears to have brought real change to the Middle East
Author SIR JOHN JENKINS December 31, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/ynsv8 It is always sobering to revisit your own predictions. So, before I started writing this piece — about the region in 2020 and what we might expect in 2021 — I went back to what I wrote last year. I […]
The age of Discovery and European colonialism
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How Godless Arabs Changed Europe
In the world of Islam, some philosophers went against religion. The secularist ideas that European scholars found in these thinkers’ writings shook both Muslim and Christian theologians Koert Debeuf Koert […]
Unravelling the Truth About Eve: Her Position in History According to Islam
Nila Ahmad NOTABLE WOMEN • WOMEN’S SECTION 19th August 2020 2 Comments ©Shutterstock Nila Ahmad, USA The imagery is nearly always the same. A tree stands centred in the middle ground. A serpent […]
Sakıp Sabancı Museum moves show on Istanbul, capital of empires, online
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL EVENTS OCT 06, 2020 The portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent attributed to Italian painter Titian, oil on canvas, 99 by 85 centimeters, selected from Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, […]
Ibrahim Njoya, the African king who created his own writing system that was destroyed by the French
May 10, 2018 at 02:37 pm | HISTORY MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR | Head of Content FULL BIOCLOSE FULL BIO Mildred Europa Taylor is a writer and content creator. She loves writing […]
Are we living at the ‘hinge of history’?
By Richard Fisher24th September 2020 Could right now be the most influential time ever? Richard Fisher looks at the case for and against – and why it matters. What is […]
Arabian history in Sicily
THE HISTORY OF SICILY As-Salamu ‘Alaykum would have been a common greeting in Sicily a thousand years ago. Why? Because from 827 to 1061, Sicily was under Arab rule. It was […]