Long live the King! These are billboards and signs seen everywhere in Thailand, including at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. The Kingdom of Thailand is going through the Coronavirus crisis. With 1245 ...

"This,” said the guide who was taking us around the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, “is the Courtyard of the Concubines.” We blinked at the sunlight and surveyed the row of windows closed off with ...

With the images they conjure, of heavily guarded spaces where hundreds of beautiful, fecund women coexisted, royal harems continue to exert their power over our imagination. Though outdated, we wonder ...