During a recent trip to Armenia, I was once again reminded of man's inhumanity to man. I also found myself face-to-face once again with the power of memory and of hate, and asked myself if there is any way to overcome the lingering and pernicious effects of conflicts among peoples.

The world's biggest book fair in the German city of Frankfurt opens its doors Wednesday, shining a spotlight on the rise of the Internet as a challenge to the printed word and the flourishing literary scene in guest country India.

An Iranian intellectual released after four months in jail has admitted that he unknowingly acted against national security interests after being manipulated by US organizations, the ISNA agency reported Thursday.

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A Turkish court on Thursday blocked an unprecedented conference that was to have questioned the country's official line on the massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.

After 15 years of war in southeastern Anatolia, the first inside account of the struggle by soldiers drafted to fight Kurdish guerrillas in the mountains was bound to be a bestseller in Turkey.