Two Mamluk mosque lamps, stolen from the Egyptian national collection in 2014, have been returned to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities from the United Arab Emirates in a ceremony in Cairo, ...

Egyptian producer Mamdouh Sabaa, the chairman of the Film Factory for cinema production, signed a contract with novelist Reem Bassiouney to adapt her award-winning novel “Awlad al-Nas… Thulathiat ...

Author Gamal al-Ghitany's novel “Zeiny Barakat” depicts repression and fear in Arab life, drawing similiar conclusions between repression during the Mamluk period and imprisonment during the ...

The manuscript is one of the rarest documentations of the era. The Ministry of Culture announced on Sunday the return of an ancient Quran manuscript after being offered at the UK’s Chiswick Auctions ...

The symposium explored the historical and civilizational legacy of the Golden Horde, one of the most influential political ...

(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) In the middle of Islamic Cairo's main Street Al Mu'izz, one may find Sultan al-Ghuri's mausoleum. Legends have it that the place was never used and the whereabouts of the ...

Awlad Al-Nas – Thulatiyat Al-Mamalik (Sons of the People: The Mamluks Trilogy), Reem Bassiouney, Nahdat Masr Publishing, Cairo 2018. pp.759 This historical novel consists of three unequal parts, or ...

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 ...

AMMAN — Arab and Ottoman ruling elites and dynasties relied for centuries on the class of the slave-warriors called Mamluks, who were ethnically diverse and usually came from the Turkic, Caucasian, ...