Focusing on a seventeenth-century Syrian city, this study examines the practice of slavery as a strategy for building elite households in the Ottoman Empire. After an overview of the slave trade and ...

Amid the George Floyd protests last summer, a prominent Turkish newspaper reassured the population with an article headlined, “Bizim Siyahlar Türkiye’de Mutlu,” meaning, “Our Blacks Are Happy in ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the ...

British Vogue dating columnist Lord debuts with a raw and riveting take on love, loss, and moving on. In her mid-20s, Lord was gobsmacked when Joe, her first love and boyfriend Continue reading » The ...

The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...