The Lion House. By Christopher de Bellaigue. Vintage; 304 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November; $28 NOT FOR the first or last time in history, the master of ...

German/Turkish actress Meryem Uzerli is among the Arab world’s best-known young stars, thanks to hit Turkish soap “Magnificent Century,” in which she played Hurrem Sultan, a seductive former slave who ...

Russian forces attacking the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have shelled a mosque housing more than 80 adults and children, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. “The mosque of Sultan Suleiman ...