On 16 September 1977, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan secretly landed in Tangier, Morocco, to meet Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Hasan al…

Rateb Shallah, the former president of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce, has died. He was 92. His history and that of his illustrious family tell…

Long before Hamas, Israel, and Netanyahu, Gaza was a theatre for major military operations, witnessing four major battles before the city’s final…

Although rare, controversy over US election results and accusations of election fraud have swirled a few times in the nation's history. Some cases…

After the collective Arab defeat in the June 1967 war with Israel, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser delivered a famous speech saying: “We cannot…

Lebanon’s first cabinet was formed on 26 May 1926, headed by a prominent Christian statesman named Auguste Adib Pasha. Back then, the premiership was…

On this day exactly 99 years ago, the residents of Damascus awoke to the sound of explosions ripping through their sleeping city. Colonial France,…

Born on 31 August 1960 to a vegetable vendor from the village of Bassouriyeh in South Lebanon, Hasan Nasrallah hailed from a working-class family…

In 1956, a University of Maryland student came up with a brilliant idea. Fred Kahn, 23, wrote to his university administration proposing a live…

As former US President Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday approaches on 1 October, Al Majalla's Sami Moubayed reviews the life and legacy of the longest…