Ghulf Genes

Troubles across the world throughout my life have served to make me aware of the details of history. There was a single exception. I learned...

Herewith an extract from a family history I wrote in the 1990s — with the reason for my quoting it revealed only at the very end: * * * ...

I got to musing about the Ottomans yesterday—but in a modern context. We were discussing recent events in Iraq—and the ethnic patchwork that...

The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1922, thus for 623 years. It was on the wrong side in World War I and dismembered in the Treaty of Sè...

As I reached maturity, my thinking about international relations was much influenced by George F. Kennan, a one-time ambassador to Moscow, a...