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…

From direct military strikes that took down prominent Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and his successor Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004 to close…

In 1941, Sir Winston Churchill paid one of his many visits to Canada—a former British colony turned Commonwealth ally— which had always been dear to…

On 4 December 1992, Israeli history professor Yair Hirschfeld and top Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei (aka Abu Alaa) secretly met at the Cavendish…

On this day in 1972, Palestinian militants from the Black September Organisation carried out a complex operation at the Summer Olympics in Munich,…

Syria rolls out its EXPO 2024 exhibition today (on 4 September), targeting local industry in all its forms. Marketed as an opportunity to sell Syrian…

On 4 February 1969, a delegation of flamboyant young Palestinians walked confidently into the office of Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser in…