Golda Meir was Israel's first — and last — female prime minister and first president of a political party in Israel, Mapei (now Labor, headed by…

“I talked to (Ambassador Simcha) Dinitz in Washington at all hours of the day and night. Where is the airlift? Why wasn’t it underway yet?” writes…

In his memoirs, former Syrian prime minister Fares al-Khoury says that when serving as MP in the Ottoman Parliament during World War I, he met with…

On 9 March 1956, President Gamal Abdel Nasser hosted a mini-summit in Cairo, attended by President Shukri al-Quwatli of Syria, King Saud Ibn Abdul…

Saturday, the ninth of September, marked the 47th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death. It used to be a big occasion in China. Still, it seemed like a…

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…