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...Dink, 52, a widely respected journalist and editor of Agos, a Turkish and Armenian newspaper, was gunned down in front of his office in central Istanbul on Friday. He had been branded a "traitor" by nationalists for his comments on the genodice of Armenians in the then Ottoman Empire during World...
...that we might be broadly educated, 50 others and I took, in Spring 2004, “Literature and Arts B-35. The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court.” Which, you can say to your prospective employer during a job interview, is about way more than the Magnificent sultan himself. There’s an entire week of comparison to the Timurid dynasty and the Safavid, and Mughal empires...
...that would see liberal democracy triumph in the Arab world. Instead, the biggest beneficiary from his demise has been Islamic fundamentalism. Saddam's execution marks the final nail in the coffin of Arab nationalism, a secular ideology of pan-Arab unity and independence. Originating with the Arab Revolt against Ottoman domination of the Middle East nearly a century ago, the ideology took on a militant edge following Arab independence after World War II. Partly as a reaction to Israel's defeat of the Arabs in the 1948 war, Arab nationalism promoted militaristic societies led by warrior leaders who espoused dreams...
...Grand Serail, an Ottoman-era palace that houses Lebanon's government, began its life as a garrison for Turkish soldiers. The buff limestone building was restored after this country's long civil war, and it still looms over downtown Beirut like a hilltop fortress, with its arabesque arches punctuating the fa?ade like so many cannon slits...
Still, the Ottomans are certainly back in style. There's the funky T shirt label, Ottoman Empire, which features groovy graphics of sultans and taglines like THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. The latest hotel, Les Ottomans, looks as if it has been there since the days of the empire but is in fact a new building with interiors by designer Zeynep Fadillioglu, a striking 51-year-old who wears Rick Owens clothes and is responsible for the look of some of the city's smartest restaurants and bars...