In recent years nationalism studies have been paying increasing attention, perhaps rightly, to the impact of the internet on various ethnic groups, national identities and diasporas. The internet ...

It is not easy to find Circassians in historical Circassia, a densely vegetated land of rolling hills and mountain slopes soaring to snowy heights along the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. The ...

Scattered across the world, Circassians are increasingly active online. Now in Russia, activists are putting forward an initiative to unite under a single name. Karachay-Cherkessia is a republic on ...

May 21, the Circassian Day of Mourning… The Circassians, an indigenous people of the Caucasus region, resisted the invasion attempts of Tsarist Russia for nearly 300 years. On May 21, 1864, Tsarist ...

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington. Frankie Martin, an Ibn Khaldun Chair Research ...

Members of a Circassian ethnic group shout slogans during a protest against the Olympics in front of the Russian Consulate in Istanbul, Feb. 2, 2014. Members of a Circassian ethnic group shout slogans ...

Of the myriad controversies surrounding the upcoming Olympics, one that's gotten relatively little attention — at least outside Russia — is the ongoing campaign against the games by the global ...

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A new UN World Tourism Organization title is set to bring tourists to the small Lower Galilee village, but residents want people to know who they really are – and not throw garbage in their streets.

History bears testimony that some powerful nations have a unique strategy to make the global community forget about genocides committed by them against weaker sections of societies. War kills men, ...