A superpower is a country that has tremendous swaying power on the world stage. It is militarily and economically powerful and its cooperation is necessary in solving the world’s problems.

A superpower perceives its own interests as having a direct impact on the world and, inversely, it sees the world’s developments and political trends as having an influence on its own plans for the preservation of power, which means that a superpower’s actions tend to change the course of world events.

Advanced military capabilities are at the core of a superpower’s potency. Therefore, real nuclear capability and a readiness to…

Historical Background

In October 1918, Arab forces under Emir Feisal, supported by the British, captured Damascus, bringing to a close 400 years of Ottoman rule.

In 1919, Emir Feisal, during the Versailles peace conference held after the defeat of Germany and the Ottoman Empire during World War One, proposed Arab self-rule.

In March 1920 the Syrian National Congress declared Emir Feisal king of Syria from the Taurus mountains of Turkey to the Sinai desert in Egypt.

In June 1920, during the conference of San Remo — an international meeting that took place in the coastal city of San Remo in…

You left just like that. Sixty-one seconds of seagoing silver in the clasp of a memory disk. This far and no further, says the footage as it folds up its sleeves of sand and presses my face against the black flat-screen.

Whatever they say, film doesn’t…

The arts have a major purpose in the life of a human being. Art is a way of finding meaning, beauty and truth in life. It is a way to find out who you are, why you were born, and what you must do in this world. If you don’t allow the artist in you to breathe, you suffocate a channel through which great insights can find their way to you.

Your desire to create art and your curiosity about the meaning of life are so intricately linked that it is difficult to realize the value of one without the…