Here’s What You Need To Remember: Leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Muammar el-Qaddafi have left a bad taste in the mouth when it comes to Arab strongmen. And yet in this case, it’s hard not to ...

Any suggestion that the United States should exercise tough love with Israel (as distinct from the soft, unconditional, even if unrequited, variety of love that instead prevails in American politics ...

In July 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, prompting a response from Israel, Great Britain and France. Britain and France had assembled impressive invasion fleets ...

Cultural historian Alia Mossallem puts a focus on what remains, 60 years later, of the Suez War in the hearts, minds and words of the people who lived those events On 30 October 1956, Gamal Abdel ...

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Then US president Dwight Eisenhower asked of British prime minister Anthony Eden: 'Have you gone out of your mind?' He was none too pleased that Britain and France had connived with Israel to seize ...

Teaching Fellow in English (Contemporary and Postcolonial), University of Leeds Reflecting on his experience of teaching English in Malaysia during the build-up to independence in 1957, the author of ...

What were the events that led to the Suez Crisis, and did it deal a final blow to Britain's self-image as a world power to be reckoned with? In 1854 Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French former diplomat, ...