On Feb. 2, 2025, Salama Marouf, head of Gaza's government media office, declared Gaza a “disaster zone” during a press ...

highlighting the scale of destruction inflicted upon the mosque and its historical contents. The manuscripts date back to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, spanning between 500 to 700 years ago ...

Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and ...

Gaza was once a crossroads of the ancient civilisations of the Nile and the Levant. The coastal strip was a trading and ...

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Mamluk and Ottoman architectural styles, representing three different Islamic dynasties. Although it's not Abu Dhabi's oldest attraction, those who have visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque say ...

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The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.

During the Mamluk period (11th to 14th centuries ... Nofal’s images showed the destruction of Hama’s churches and its Great Mosque, wrought by Assad regime bombs in 1982.