War creates cultural collisions. In Si Sheppard’s militaristic comparison and contrast of Ottoman soldiers and those of Australia and New Zealand, the cultural divisions are easy to notice even before ...

In September 1918, General Edmund Allenby prepared a final offensive against Ottoman forces in Palestine. His plan at Megiddo ...

A recent article from National Library of Israel suggests that T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), a strong supporter of Arab nationalism, also lobbied in favor of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, in ...

$22,500,000 was the sum allotted to Palestine to be paid in the next twenty years as its share of the Ottoman National Debt, according to the decision reached by the Allied Debt Commission which ...

This animated history explains the early causes of the Crimean War, including disputes over Christian shrines in Ottoman-controlled Palestine. It also covers Russia’s role and the alliance of the ...

So the UK government now recognizes the existence of a Palestinian state. How kind. This comes almost exactly 110 years after 1915, when Britain’s Sir Henry McMahon, in a series of letters between him ...

The 400 years before the founding of the Jewish state is a historiographical minefield, but Krämer (The Jews in Modern Egypt), a professor of Islamic studies at Free University Berlin, manages to ...