Visiting Beirut at the end of July, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Assad of Syria expanded their 'mini summit' with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to include the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, the (Shi'i) Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, the Lebanese and Syrian Foreign Ministers, the head of Saudi intelligence and Assad's political adviser, Bouthaina Sha' Read more

In 2005 Oxford University Press published Donald Bloxham's The Great Game of Genocide. Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. The first hardback edition was followed by a paperback version in 2007. Read more