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.

BOLSHOI KICHMAI, Russia (AP) — While Vladimir Putin and rich Olympic sponsors watch the Winter Games in gleaming arenas, boys in nearby Bolshoi Kichmai herd their goats by tying them to rickety ...

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 ...

How does this place actually exist? How does it function as a discrete pocket of Israeli society while also maintaining nearly complete cultural autonomy? “Where are you from?” is a rather simple ...

“They tried to forget us, as if we never even lived there,” says Circassian architect Abdullah Makhmudovic Berisov. Now 67 years old, Berisov speaks about the pain he feels when thinking of the 2014 ...

Damascus, Dec. 26 (SANA) The Circassian Charitable Association in Damascus on Thursday opened an exhibition of books and historical documents highlighting Circassian history, cultural heritage, and ...

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. Last July, Doku Umarov, a shadowy militant leader ...

Amman, Jordan – On February 7, about 300 ethnic Circassians gathered for a brief demonstration in front of the Russian embassy here in the Jordanian capital. Holding signs with slogans such as: “No to ...

In the intimate confines of Boston College’s Bonn Studio Theater, Evgeny Ibragimov raised a walnut baton adorned with hazelnut sprigs, and the room fell silent. Known also as Shaoukh Ibragim, he ...