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This article provides an overview of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt against the Ottoman government during World War I, led by Sharif Husayn bin ‘Ali of Mecca in conjunction with British support.

... the Arab Revolt epitomised the jockeying to fill the power vacuum which would ensue if the Ottoman Empire was defeated.

One hundred years ago this week, in the middle of World War I, an uprising erupted at the axis of the Islamic world, in Mecca. Encouraged by the British, the ruler of the holy city, Sharif Hussein, launched a revolt against the Ottoman Turks.

In brief, it’s Israel’s national ideology, with Judaism serving as both a nationality and religion.

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the twentieth century was chaotic and led to imperial control and incorporation of the Middle East into the world capitalist system.

The term "the Middle East" is itself a British colonial invention. It takes a European point of view, geographically speaking.

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the four major historical events that boosted fundamentalism in the Muslim world –the other three being the 1977 military coup by General Zia ul-Haq in Pakistan, the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Muslim militants’ seizure of the Holy Mosque in Mecca in 1979.

Terrorism is a phenomenon that has spread to nearly all parts of the world in the last part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been at the centre of this violence as the region has suffered from both domestic and international terrorist activities.