Gertrude Bell

Today's Iraq is one of the countries that have emerged at the end of the 400-year-old Ottoman Empire rule after the First World War. 

The 11th edition of Kinomania in Plovdiv will be held from November 18 until December 1, 2016. The festival comes in Bulgaria's second-largest city with the strongest program ever and for the first time for  14 days.

As you enter the "Josephine's Fragments" exhibition at the Erimtan Museum near Ankara's citadel, your eyes are immediately drawn to the picture of Josephine Powell on the far wall.

The 300-year-old Armenian monastery of Surp Astvatsatsin (Tomarza Monastery) has completely deteriorated in the Tomarza district of Turkey's central Anatolian Kayseri province, with merely a few ruined walls remaining. 

The monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is situated in Kayseri's Cumhuriyet neighborhood.

New movies starring Juliette Binoche, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren and Lea Seydoux will put women in the spotlight when they premiere at the 65th Berlin film festival starting on Jan. 5.