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…

In late May 1967, President Gamal Abdel Nasser summoned his top generals to a meeting, days before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. Many were members…

Towards the end of the Lebanese civil war, Lebanese satirist Wassim Tabara wrote a song about the country’s history since its outbreak in 1975.He…

Almost 50 years after leaving office, few politicians in modern American history have remained so relevant to world politics.Henry Kissinger was,…

Picking up from part 1 of the series, we continue with our review of key Arab summits. We last left off in the late 1980s where the Arab world was…

In his gripping memoirs, Karim Thabet — special media advisor to King Farouk — claims that the first Arab summit in modern history was the product of…