Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

By May 1967, with war looming and Egypt’s military buildup in the Sinai, King Hussein faced an impossible dilemma. He knew ...

Since Beinart sees quoting rabbis as proper, he should know that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, in his Kol Dodi Dofek, Chapter 10, explained regarding the commandment to destroy Amalek that he agreed ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

In a period when the Palestinian revolution reemerged as a rising regional force, she toured widely, raising funds for the ...

But in the context of Suez and Britain, most people today think of the intervention of 1956. Then Egyptian president Nasser’s pan-Arabism was perceived as a threat to British and French interests and ...

Seventy-seven Canadian troops were part of a 591 member UN force dispatched to Lebanon in 1958 to support the westernized elite facing pressure from secular pan-Arabism. While Canadian UN ...

The Assad regime publicly embraced pan-Arabism but ultimately served as an Iranian foothold in the Arab world. Syria’s neighbours do not want it to break free of Iran’s influence only for it t ...

Since the Assad regime fell after more than 50 years in power, the extent of Syria’s cultural isolation is becoming clear.