Twenty years ago, the building that now houses Cercis Murat Konağı was a neglected old mansion sliding into dereliction in Mardin, a historic city in southeastern Turkey. Today, it is by many accounts ...

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After a year and a half of restoration work, the more than 400-year-old historic bazaar with 65 businesses reopens in the Dargeçit district. A project to revive a centuries-old area with high heritage ...

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that several late Antique Age and Medieval monasteries and churches in Mardin's Tur Abdin area have been included in the tentative list of UNESCO ...

With a best long form video Grammy nom for the documentary "Greatest Ears in Town," Joe Mardin reflects on his father's life and work. By Shirley Halperin Indeed, when it came to singers, Arif Mardin, ...

Showing his portraits of artists at risk at the Mardin Biennial was meant to be a homecoming for Ahmet Öğüt. The Kurdish artist, who has exhibited in Europe, Canada and Australia, was born 50 miles ...

Among the Kurds in southeastern Turkey. Mardin, Turkey By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers ...

Arif Mardin, the legendary producer/arranger whose career spanned landmark recordings from Aretha Franklin to the Bee Gees to Norah Jones, died yesterday (June 25) in New York. Mardin was 74 and had… ...

Arif Mardin, the longtime Atlantic Records producer whose remarkable resume includes major hits with Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, Norah Jones and many others, died on June 25th of pancreatic cancer.