[caption id="attachment_55238551" align="alignnone" width="620"] Great mosque of Samarra, excavation photograph, 1911-13. Source: Juliet Highet[/caption]As the acrid dust dies down from the war in…

[caption id="attachment_55238497" align="alignnone" width="638"] Screen grab from the television adaptation of novel Huzur Sokağı shows protagonists Feyza (R) played by Selin Demiratar and Bilal,…

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[caption id="attachment_55238329" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Majalla's first cover, edition No. 1 February 16-22 1980.[/caption] Happy 33rd Birthday, The Majalla! On February 16, 1980, the…

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[caption id="attachment_55237637" align="alignnone" width="620"] T.E. Lawrence (left), better known as Lawrence Of Arabia, with American broadcaster and explorer Lowell Thomas, circa 1925.[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55237567" align="alignnone" width="620"] Awateef Abu Malyana. Source: Ahmed El Amraoui[/caption]When Awateef Abu Malyana told her family about her wish to become a journalist,…

[caption id="attachment_55237508" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Source: David Levenson/Getty Images[/caption] [inset_left]Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb Allen Lane/Penguin…

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