Among the major sites restored from ruins are the Great Mosque of al-Nuri ... according to the Art Newspaper’s Hadani Ditmars. “My most moving memory is when the scaffolding of the al ...

There was a fearful stink in the ministry of information last week when a HTS-Uzbek fighter guarding Damascus’s main Umayyad mosque made some ... It was not an issue of great weight in itself ...

Queen Toda approached Córdoba’s great ruler, the caliph ’Abd al-Rahman ... the 13th-century Divrigi Hospital was built alongside a mosque, and the two are a UNESCO World Heritage site.

In the fourteenth century, when the medieval traveller Ibn Battuta visited the Great Mosque of al-Nuri ... community building is a kind of performance art, where the usual tales of a fractured ...

Restoration work is ongoing at the muezzin mahfil of Selimiye Mosque, a masterpiece of Turkish-Islamic architecture and home to some of the finest examples of Edirnekari art, a traditional ... is ...

From space, Mecca appears as a city of light and contrast, with winding roads threading through rugged mountains. The radiant Great Mosque of Mecca and the Kaaba stand at its heart, a spiritual beacon ...

Emotions were running high among the dozens of Syrians gathered at the Zawaya Art Gallery in the heart of Damascus on January 15 for a screening that would be unprecedented in every way.

and to connect with the rich tapestry of Damascus past. The Khan has also been reborn as a vibrant cultural center, hosting art exhibitions, craft fairs, and other events that celebrate the city ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, has been renovated in a boost for Iraq’s second city as it rebuilds ...

The suburb’s famous markets drew buyers from across Damascus, with Yarmouk often viewed as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora. Only a few small shops and stalls now serve the estimated ...

“I don’t think blank exposure to great art does anything; there has to be an engaging pedagogical apparatus,” Dr. Morgan said. Which means actually talking about the meaning and history or ...