25th Levantine Heritage Foundation Zoom lecture gathering with guest speaker Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Middle East experienced a period of ...

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful ...

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

Esra Özdoğan’s solo exhibition, The Ghost in the Machine, curated by Çağla Özbek, invites viewers into a world where the boundaries between life, death, and illusion are constantly shifting. The title ...

This tile panel was originally located in the men’s hot room. The eight rectangular tiles are adorned with Persian couplets in nasta‘līq script from a poem highlighting the hamam's significance in ...

Walking into the British Museum’s latest exhibition, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, one is struck by the incredible scope of the artefacts on display, ranging from modern-day Afghanistan to ...

The works of the Portuguese-British artist, Paula Rego, are now exhibited in Turkey for the first time. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition was planned with the participation of the late artist, ...

3rd joint event Levantine Heritage Foundation with the Royal Asiatic Society gathering in London with guest speaker Dr Gemma Masson In the 18th century Ottoman Empire, international interactions ...

Pi Artworks Istanbul presents two unique performances as part of Fabio Lattanzi Antinori’s solo exhibition, Chased by Unicorns. Having created an international survey asking how we define ‘happiness’ ...

Readers of Cornucopia might think they need no introduction to the work of Monica Fritz. For the last decade she has been photographer at large for this magazine, returning from assignments with sharp ...

The inimitable Sibel Köse, dubbed ‘the Queen of European Jazz’, is a vocalist of outstanding talent. Last time I saw Sibel perform, I wrote: ‘Over the three-and-a-bit years since I last had the ...