Published by The Cairo Review No other issue has been more discussed and negotiated by the international community than Palestine. The so-called “question of Palestine” has been an ongoing subject in the diplomacy of the last century. Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and after the secret Sykes-Picot Read more
Last October the 30th 2016 was the 25th anniversary of the cold autumn morning when Madrid became the centre of the history of mankind. For the first time, after long decades of disagreements, disregard and violent clashes, the peoples and nations of the torn Near East accepted to gather around Read more
I met Shimon Peres during the state visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain to Israel in November 1993. From then onwards, I had the privilege to maintain an intense relationship with the Israeli politician. Thousands of hours of conversations, negotiations, secret meetings and imaginative proposals forged Read more
A few weeks ago, a new chapter opened in the Middle East that meant the end to another one; the end to the chapter in which Europe had played a starring role. The heads of US and Russian diplomacy got together in Vienna at a first meeting; later, they would Read more
The death of former Ministry of Foreign Affairs Saud al-Faisal has gone almost unnoticed by public opinion due to the hyperinflation of news and the crises affecting the international community. The demise of the Saudi Minister, world’s diplomacy doyen for several decades, requires however a much-deserved tribute to the tremendous Read more
The destruction of history has become a fanatic obsession of the misnamed Islamic State (IS) and its crooked version of Islam, deliberately attacking the cultural heritage of humanity and its civilisations. It intends to erase the monuments of the Middle East, which means reducing to dust the cultures of the Read more
This week the international press reminds us with figures and dramatic images of the bloody war which has now been going on for 4 years, taking human lives, displacing families and destroying the scant facilities which still remain standing in that country called “Al-Sham”: Syria. The international community and the Read more