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house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think thats what it was, really, it had become me...

hello, im john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal key moments and cultural works that fired their imagination and had a profound impact on their own art. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work. in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in the bbc broadcasting house. welcome to thi...

There was something like in my mind, when i was really young, an art museum was where the mona lisa lived or something, it wasnt somewhere where you could go, but saying that, when i was very young, we used to spend time in turkey and i went to topkapi museum, hagia sophia, blue mosque in istanbul, so i had this idea of this other kind of culture but it was partly my culture because i was half turkish. it wasnt to do without art and culture, it was just things that existed in the world, and i re...

There was something like in my mind, when i was really young, an art museum was where the mona lisa lived or something, it wasnt somewhere where you could go, but saying that, when i was very young, we used to spend time in turkey and i went to topkapi museum, hagia sophia, blue mosque in istanbul, so i had this idea of this other kind of culture but it was partly my culture because i was half turkish. it wasnt to do with art and culture, it was just things that existed in the world, and i remem...

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'Hagia Sophia must close for a specific period of time for restoration. The entire building must be cleaned. The gutters for the flow of humidity and water must be properly placed, the floor must be bolstered as should the buttresses.'

Aktürkoğlu said that Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 was one of the most significant events in the history of Islam.

Opinion: Saudi Arabia should sue Turkey for stealing Prophet Muhammads relics By Harut Sassounian The Arab News published on March 28 an article titled, “Book by Saudi author unravels Ottoman atrocities in Madinah.” The book was written by Saudi historian Muhammad Al-Saeed who exposed Ottoman atrocities against the Muslim population of the holy city of Madinah in Saudi Arabia in 1918 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Al-Saeed, in his book, “Seferberlik: A Century on from the Ottoman...