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Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
Paratroopers of teh 2nd RPC firing a 106 mm SR recoilless gun at an Egyptian resistance point on an Egyptian resistance point in Port Said

The Suez Crisis (1956)

In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a complicated imbroglio marked by the intersection of European decolonization, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Cold War, and the growth of U.S. power.
… The crisis began on July 26, when Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez … Egypt …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… in the History Department. I study early 19th century Egypt, specifically the role of Muslim scholars in political … but there's a great video on YouTube with the amazing Egyptian novelist, Alaa Al Aswany, who said quite pointedly … powers of the region are now Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. And starting with Turkey, I would say …
U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon

Ten Terrorists Attacks in History

… the Moro case continues to haunt Italian politics. 5. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad and President Anwar Sadat 12 people were kiled and 28 injured when assassins from Egyptian Islamic Jihad attacked Anwar Sadat’s review stand … 6, 1981. On October 6, 1981,  President Anwar Sadat of Egypt  was assassinated by members of Egyptian Islamic …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

… some of them, some of the Islamic women that I talked to in Egypt, even, they find scholarly obsession with veil not … the upper-class women. It was a class issue, and also Egyptian women back in that day did not veil. So as Johanna … common at all. It waxes and wanes. So your question about Egypt in 1919, when the Egyptian women were helping with the …

Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping

… (UNEF I) mission that was deployed to the Sinai region of Egypt from 1956 to 1967. Trial in the Sinai On October 29, 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and quickly advanced westward toward the Suez Canal, which Egypt had nationalized in July to the consternation of Great …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… of regular meetings, scheduled to begin September 14-15 in Egypt. As in previous efforts at peace, arriving at a … is reflected in the fact that from 1948 to 1973 Israel and Egypt fought four wars, and the Israel-Egypt fighting was just one of several theaters of the …
Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signing the Camp David Peace Accords on September 17, 1978.

Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?

… Prime Minister Menachem Begin, for example, joined with Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat to respond to U.S. … 1977. The accords led to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that none of Begin’s opponents, previous Labor Party … for Israel and forge a strategically valuable peace with Egypt, the largest Arab country, by making concessions he …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement that had originated in Egypt sixteen years earlier. In 1946, shortly after French … These included the Syrian Communist Party, supporters of Egypt's President Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir, and the Arab … members welcomed Syria's 1961 secession from the Egypt-dominated United Arab Republic , which had been set up …