The Qadam station, however, retained its structure of Ottoman stone and French bricks from Marseille ... The train station, though badly wrecked, was opened again, briefly, as a symbol of triumph and ...

The Qadam station, however, retained its structure of Ottoman stone and French bricks ... was opened again, briefly, as a symbol of triumph and revival. Syrian state media reported that trains ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...

However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul). While the Ottoman Empire ruled the Muslim world ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub.