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

The Middle East underwent immense changes in the 1950s due to political instability and ideological shifts. This period, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Nasser, however, never intended to form close ties with the U.S.. But he was more than happy to take U.S. aid while simultaneously moving closer to the Soviets and burnishing his pan-Arab credentials.