Eleonore Merza is dreaming of or planning to return to the village of Mansoura in the Golan Heights, the object of her invented, concrete longings. Her father, though, clings to a very different ethos ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. The Circassian ...

Winter sports don’t command much of a following in a Middle East more familiar with sand than snow, but one of the region’s lesser-known minorities will be glued to its TV screens when the Olympics ...

BOLSHOI KICHMAI, Russia (AP) — While Vladimir Putin and rich Olympic sponsors watch the Winter Games in gleaming arenas, boys in nearby Bolshoi Kichmai herd their goats by tying them to rickety ...

The Circassians (Adyghe) in Syria represent a rich model of social and cultural diversity, carrying with them from their ...

NALCHIK, RussiaNALCHIK, Russia — Natai Al Sharkas’ great-grandfather killed his Russian commanding officer and defected to the enemy. The ethnic Circassian swells with pride at the thought of the ...

On International Mother Language Day, the Network for Monitoring, Documenting and Reporting on Language Rights (DHİBRA) released a statement in the mother languages of Turkey and requested the removal ...