Popular lore says that on his deathbed, legendary Egyptian prime minister Saad Zaghloul Pasha took a long hard look at the sad state of affairs in…

On 9 August, a military confrontation erupted in al-Kahaleh on the main road between Damascus and Beirut, in Lebanese territory that is affiliated,…

Iraqi troops amassing on the Kuwaiti borders, along with fiery statements coming from Baghdad about the need to “restore the newborn to the lap of…

On 24 July 1920, 36-year-old war minister Yusuf al-Azma walked solemnly into the office of King Faisal I of Syria. This was just hours before the…

When Abdul Rahman Pasha al-Yusuf left his mansion in Souq Sarouja on 21 August 1920, heading for the Houran province in the Syrian south, he didn’t…

Walking through the streets of Damascus in 2023, one sees plenty of people talking to themselves, a natural reaction, no doubt, to all the economic…

Perched next to the Umayyad Mosque is the mausoleum of the great Muslim sultan, Saladin, considered one of the treasures of the Old City of Damascus…

Long before the Arab League came into existence in the mid-1940s, the Arabs convened their first congress in Paris back in 1913, with the aim of…

It took just less than one year for Egypt to formally shift from monarchism to republicanism — a period that is often overlooked by journalists and…

In 1959, Saddam Hussein was implicated in an assassination attempt on Iraqi prime minister Abdul Karim Qassim. This was 20 years before he became the…