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 ...

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 ...

Others, like “Wallah zaman ya silahi” (How long it has been, my weapon) became official anthems of pan-Arabism. The 1967 Naksa and Zionist defeat of Arab armies influenced Umm Kulthum greatly. In a ...

The late king features prominently in the hundreds of thousands of documents declassified by the American intelligence agency. Previously secret, these reports reveal the image the United States had ...

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

But he was more than happy to take U.S. aid while simultaneously moving closer to the Soviets and burnishing his pan-Arab credentials. The thought that Nasser could concurrently present himself as ...