This year will mark the first time the flag will fly outside the U.N., but the flag’s history stretches back a century to the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...

The Ottoman Empire lasted from around 1300 until 1922, and at various points in its history ruled present-day Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, and beyond. In the wake of the 1821 Greek revolt, the ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 665-671 (7 pages) When Sabbatai Sevi proclaimed himself messiah in 1665, many Jews throughout the Ottoman Empire and ...