The White House is reviving a game of territorial expansion that treats foreign lands as real estate and their people as ...

On the reading list this week is a compendium of Bengali writing in translation that spans eras, a debut novel that examines ...

Tell me what is your nightmare and I will tell you who you are!” The quip attributed to Freud may be apocryphal, but I think it contains a grain of truth. I don’t know what your nightmare is, but I ...

Long before instant messages and video calls collapsed distance, love travelled by ink and paper, with letters serving, ...

Montereau-Fault-Yonne in the 77 region will host the largest Napoleonic gathering in northern France on February 14 and 15, ...

While Napoleon battled Austria at Wagram, his armies were being drained in Iberia. The Peninsular War turned into a brutal ...

Quote of the day by Victor Hugo, “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” As a leader of the Romantic movement, Hugo survived 19 years of political exile. He championed the ...

The first person to take both aerial and subterranean photographs, Nadar was a pioneer of both hot-air ballooning and ...

Joaquin Phoenix will reportedly play Napoleon in a new movie to be directed by Ridley Scott. Deadline says the movie is called Kitbag, derived from the saying, "There is a general’s staff hidden in ...

As the first quarter of the 21st century came to an end, Ahram Online reviews a selection of books that reflect the historical building blocks behind today’s Egypt. Four titles trace Egypt’s journey ...

As the first quarter of the 21st century came to an end, Ahram Online reviews a selection of books that reflect the ...

When Dallan Tan was young, he had a huge passion for cars. He fed and nurtured this passion by pursuing a degree in automotive engineering. Halfway through, he realised this wasn’t his true calling in ...