Winners of the 2026 International Hrant Dink Award: Süheyla Doğan from Turkey & Raji Sourani from Palestine
Istanbul, September 16 (HNA) – The 18th International Hrant Dink Award was presented at a ceremony held on the evening of Tuesday, 15 September at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Theatre.…
The 15-book longlist for the “FT Book of the Year Award” announced
The 15-book longlist for this year’s ‘Business Book of the Year Award’, organised annually by the Financial Times, has been announced. The award, sponsored for the first time this year…
As in ancient times, interest is the cause of poverty, unemployment, inflation and all of the problems
Osman Şenkul Money entered human life, dragging the ‘state’ in its wake, but it was soon realised that, as a medium of exchange, it too had to have a price.…
Let’s take Mesopotamia as an example and write off the debts in agriculture
Osman Şenkul According to economic historians, The Secret of the Sphinx provided a foundation for explaining the origins of interest-bearing loans and why interest rates varied from society to society.…
The story behind the mysterious “Moai Statues” of Easter Island
For centuries, the famous Easter Island moai statues have stood tall on this remote Pacific landscape — but who built them, how were they moved, and why were they erected…
The war is dragging on, global energy, raw materials and food markets are in turmoil, and pessimism is growing
Levent Gürses As the war—which began with US and Israeli attacks on Iran and has gradually spread across the Middle East—enters its second week, it has started to take its…
Revealing “La Torada (1914)” by Pablo Picasso
Venizelos G. Gavrilakis In an extraordinary example of early modernist art conservation, La Torada—a rare panel painting attributed to Pablo Picasso and dated 1914—has been meticulously conserved and restored by…
The Sphinx as a symbol of sustainability
John Elkington In 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by destroying Afghanistan’s Buddhas of Bamiyan. Those statues were around 1,400 years old—so who knows what fate ultimately awaits the Great…
“The Significent Story of a $450 Million Painting by Leonardo da Vinci”
By Venizelos G. Gavrilakis Salvator Mundi, a mysterious record-breaking of $450 million painting by Leonardo da Vinci. A famous painting with a long history Date back to late 1490’s, and…
Distinctive features of Byzantine and Western icon painting
Venizelos G. Gavrilakis Byzantine icons and Western painting icons represent two distinct artistic and theological traditions within the broader scope of Christian sacred art. These artistic forms, while both focused…