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…

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…