Oct 11, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
43 years ago, the deadliest Arab-Israeli military conflict commenced with a surprise attack, coordinated mainly by Egypt and Syria, on the Israeli occupied territories in Suez and the Golan Heights. The Yom Kippur War would instantly go down in infamy as the bloodiest...
May 10, 2016 | Middle East, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/n2DVo2ES7e0] May 10, 2016: Author of The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World. Under President George W. Bush, Zalmay Khalilzad represented the U.S. as Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United...
Jan 13, 2016 | Middle East, News
Invariably delicate and volatile, the Arab-Israeli peace process reached a critical juncture at the beginning of Nixon’s presidency as violence in the region escalated. At his first press conference on January 27, 1969, President Nixon summed up his assessment of the...
Sep 15, 2015 | Middle East, Nixon Biographies, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
Roham Alvandi is a professor of history at the London School of Economics and an expert on Iran. Roham Avlvandi is author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War Historian Roham Alvandi discusses Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s...
Jun 15, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
By the late 1960s, conditions in the Middle East were tumultuous. Israel had captured and held mass swaths of territory, and tensions with its neighbors were at an all-time high. However, the election of a new U.S. President brought hope in 1969 that stability and...
