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

The 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel were inspired by Arab nationalism mostly led by Egypt’s leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and his confidante, Vice President and successor Anwar Sadat.

By Hussain SanaAvi Shlaim, an Iraqi-born Israeli-British historian, is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and one of the leading voices on Middle Eastern ...

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

Some will try to deceive you into believing that the creation of Hamas – and its actions – are somehow the fault of Israeli ...

Tourism, long seen as a bridge between cultures and economies, is undergoing dramatic transformations mainly due to the rise ...

As Jewish immigration to Palestine increased, Arab workers from across the Jordan River streamed ... raising questions about the roots of nationalism and territorial claims in the region. The ...

No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, ‘Palestinianism’ persists as an ideology unwilling to ...

This is interesting, for the successive failures of Arab nationalism since the mid-1960s could have led to the emergence of different and opposing understandings of what Arab identity means and ...

Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately ...