While it's now accepted by many that video games are an art form, it still might be hard to believe that one is featured in ...

Here, the Mamluks and the Mongols would decisively test one another in one of the truly remarkable battles of the Middle Ages. Bill Clinton on opposing President Trump's agenda: "We cannot throw ...

In a recent article dedicated to the Ninth Crusade, we explained that the English prince and future king Edward I landed in Acre in the spring of 1271, ready to confront the Egyptian Mamluks under ...

Diyarbakır held a strategic position during the time of the Mamluk Sultanate. The city was loyal to the Mamluks and was under their control. When the Ottoman-Mamluk wars began, Sultan al-Ashraf ...

These principles included the Mamluk’s loyalty to his master, solidarity among Mamluks serving the same master and the concept of “one generation nobility”. Karak Castle was a prominent Mamluk ...

IN HIS CAIRO office overlooking the Nile, a businessman keeps his mobile phone in a glass jar on his desk. Elsewhere in the city a writer keeps hers in the fridge. If smartphones were once the ...

The Mamluks, who descended from non-Arab slaves who were naturalised to serve and fight for ruling Arab dynasties, are revered as some of the greatest warriors the world has ever known. Although the ...

Nairobi — As a result of the ongoing mercenary saga, one of the hottest new words in the Swahili vocabulary of most Kenyans is Mamluki. Given the current situation, the word would appear to have ...