The Russian Federation is recognized in international law as a successor state of the former Soviet Union. Russia continues to implement the international commitments of the USSR, and has assumed the ...
Main articles: Rus' people and Rus (name)The name Russia is derived from Rus, a medieval state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this proper name became more prominent in the later history, ...
Anarchist communism (also known as libertarian communism) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the mean ...
Communism comes from the Latin word communis, which means "shared" or "belong to all".In the schema of historical materialism and dialectical materialism (the application of Hegelian dialectic to hist ...
The General Assembly of the United Nations is located at United Nations Headquarters in New York. In December 1988, in order to hear Yasser Arafat, the General Assembly organised its 29th session in t ...
Main article: List of United Nations resolutions concerning IsraelIn July 1920, at San Remo conference, a Class "A" League of Nations mandates over Palestine was allocated to the British. The preamble ...
Conceived by the Arab states at the first Arab summit meeting, the 1964 Arab League summit (Cairo), its stated goal was the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle. The organization was calle ...
Persistent attempts by the Israeli government to identify another Palestinian leader to represent the Palestinian people failed. Arafat was enjoying the support of groups that, given his own history, ...
Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt. His father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Palestinian from Gaza, whose mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian. Arafat's father battled in the Eg ...
During the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sadat was appointed minister of State in 1954. He was also appointed editor of the newly founded daily Al Gomhuria. In 1959, he assumed the position of Sec ...
Bashar al-Assad was born in Damascus on 11 September 1965, the son of Aniseh and Hafez al-Assad. His father, born to a poor family of Alawite background, rose through the Ba'ath Party ranks to take co ...
Assad's pragmatic policies indirectly led to the establishment of a "new class", and he accepted this while it furthered his aims against Israel. When Assad began pursuing a policy of economic liberal ...
Early life and education: 1930–1950 Family Main article: Al-Assad familyHafez was born on 6 October 1930 in Qardaha to an Alawite family of the Kalbiyya tribe. His parents were Na'sa and Ali Sulayman ...
Jadid was born in 1926 in the village of Dweir Baabda, near the coastal city of Jableh, which in turn was close to Lattakia, to an Alawite family. However, there is another report stating his birth ye ...
