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Ertuğrul was not even a name: the father of Osman I has no known identity, and the historians themselves admit his histo...

An Iraqi Hunter pilot fighting alongside the Egyptians runs out of ammunition mid-dogfight, and brings down an Israeli P...

The birth of Osman I on the very day Baghdad fell, and how Egypt's Mamluks crushed the Mongols at Ain Jalut while Ertugr...

Osman's physical deformities, the strange religion of Baba Ishak that Ertugrul followed, and the rivalry that ended with...

In 1830, plague ravaged Iraq while its Ottoman rulers looked away, and the governor of Baghdad was busy perfecting the k...

Egypt crushed the Ottomans' forefathers at Elbistan in 1277, while Osman killed his own brother mid-battle and renamed t...

In his own book, Yousri Fouda says his programme Top Secret was al-Qaeda's idea, and describes handing his British passp...

Osman I's only real victories came against small towns, while Egypt crushed the Mongols at Shaqhab and the jurist Ibn Ta...

Muhammad ibn Qalawun crushes the Mongols at Shaqhab and quells the Affair of the People of the Covenant, while Osman tak...

The Bar Lev Line was not a wall of sand and was not destroyed by water hoses: what the fortification really was, and how...

Part 11: Orhan eliminates his brothers and founds the Janissary corps, while Egypt's al-Nasir Muhammad confronts Ibn Tay...

Part 12: October 9, 1365 — the sack of Alexandria, the Crusade that Murad I quietly engineered, and Egypt's later reckon...