The Arab League moved out of Egypt to Tunis in 1978 as a protest at the peace treaty with Israel, but returned in 1989.

It was marked by a wave of revolutions in the Arab World known as the Arab Spring, including the beginnings of several unresolved protest movements and armed conflicts.

The Arab Higher Committee declared a strike and public protest of the vote.

Not only was " Sadat's " peace almost universally despised in Egypt and the Middle East ( indeed, Sadat's own prime minister resigned in protest ), the country was expelled from the Arab League ; every Arab country severed diplomatic ties with Egypt ; commerce and trade between Egypt and its neighbors became anemic ; there were massive bread riots ; Muslim fundamentalists became more vocal and more popular than ever ; and Sadat was forced to take the precaution of jailing nearly 1, 300 opposition politicians.

The Arab Kingdom of Syria was initially supported by the British, despite French protest.

A protest in London led to a public declaration by a member of the Zionist Commission that Jewish rights were bigger than the status quo, a statement which encouraged in turn Arab suspicions that local agreements were again being overthrown by Jewish intrigues abroad.

Because of Qasim's government's repressive policy towards the opposition, Ali Salih al-Sadi, Secretary ( leader ) of the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party's Iraqi cell, reorganised the party's rank and file, and on 24 December 1962 launched a nationwide protest against Qasim's regime.

To this end, he led a revolt of the Mozarabs at Córdoba in which Christians martyred themselves to protest against Arab Muslim rule.

The first phase was directed primarily by the urban and elitist Higher Arab Committee ( HAC ) and was focused mainly on strikes and other forms of political protest.

The article and the photo series were particularly controversial as a peaceful protest movement in the context of the Arab Spring that was gathering steam at the same time, was brutally put down by the Syrian regime's military and secret police services.

During the Arab uprising known as the First Intifada, Israeli singer Si Heyman sang Yorim VeBokhim ( Shoot and Weep ), written by Shalom Hanoch, to protest Israeli policy in the territories.

All OIC states – including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three countries that officially recognised the Taliban government – joined the protest to spare the monuments.

Lewis argues that the failure of the United Nations to protest sent a clear message to the Arab world.

During a debate in the Lords in 1938 he spoke in support the policy of population transfer of Arabs in Palestine for purposes of developing the land and creating cohesive settlements, pointing out that similar transfers had occurred in Libya and other Arab countries without any protest.

On September 30, the High Follow-up Committee called on the Arab community to mount a general strike to protest the killings of five Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the Jerusalem clashes of the previous day, which many consider the first day of the al-Aqsa Intifada.

Arab demonstrations and acts of civil-disobedience in solidarity with the Palestinians turned violent following the proclamation of a general strike by the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee to protest the deaths of Arab rioters in Jerusalem the previous day.

The Arab media organization I ' lam found that media coverage of the events of October 2000 created an atmosphere of war inside Israel, painting Arab citizens as violent rioters displaying their disloyalty to the State through riots ; I ' lam and other Arab organizations say that overall Arab citizens engaged in peaceful protest during October 2000, and that the entire population was treated in blanket fashion as a rioting ' fifth column.

The Iraqi and Syrian governments, both dominated by the Ba ' ath party, soon sent Nasser delegations to push for a new Arab union on 14 March 1963.

Remember what Arab delegations from Palestine and its neighbors say in the General Assembly and in other places, talk of Arab-Jewish amity sound fantastic, for the Arabs do not wish it, they will not sit at the same table with us, they want to treat us as they do the Jews of Bagdad, Cairo, and Damascus.

During the final weeks of his term, Holbrooke secured consultative status at the United Nations for Hadassah, the Jewish women's service organization, overcoming strenuous objections from certain Arab delegations.

The contents and proposals of both the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and Paris Peace Conference, 1919, which later concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, were the subject of intensive discussion by both Zionist and Arab delegations, and the process of the negotiations were widely reported in both communities.

They both stood together on this issue and urged the General Assembly not to delay its decision but to vote for partition at once, opposing last-minute efforts of Arab delegations to effect a compromise.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

These elements, which formed the bulk of the population, were not averse to supporting a strong ruler who would protect them against the Arab aristocracy.

As the Byzantine Empire was situated in-between the Islamic world and the Christian west, so did Constantinople act as Europe ’ s first line-of-defence against Arab advances in the 7th and 8th centuries.

The Saracens called the crossbow qaws Ferengi, or " Frankish bow ," as the Crusaders used the crossbow against the Arab and Turkoman horsemen with remarkable success.

* 2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.

PDFLP poster ( 1965 ), the caption of which reads: " Solidarity with the people of the Middle East in their struggle against imperialism, feudalism, Zionism and Arab reaction " In 1969, a faction of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) broke away from the main organization to form the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PDFLP ).

In 2001, religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates issued a fatwā against the children's game Pokémon, after finding that it encouraged gambling, and was based on the theory of evolution, " a Jewish-Darwinist theory, that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles ".

The Greek fire was utilized to great effect against the Muslim fleets, helping to repel the Muslims at the first and second Arab sieges of the city.

In February 2011, anti-government mass protests sprang up against Gaddafi in Benghazi, Bayda and Zintan, in the context of the wider Arab Spring.

Bin Laden sent Arab recruits to join the fight against the United Front.

Al-Manar, the self-proclaimed " Station of the Resistance ," ( qanat al-muqawama ) is a key player in what Hezbollah calls its " psychological warfare against the Zionist enemy " and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the entire Arab world.

They were important allies of the Byzantine Empire, and waged a series of successful wars against the Arab Caliphates.

The Arab countries ( all of which had opposed the plan ) proposed to query the International Court of Justice on the competence of the General Assembly to partition a country against the wishes of the majority of its inhabitants, but were again defeated.

At the beginning of the civil war, the Jewish militias organized several bombing attacks against civilians and military Arab targets.

* 1937 – 1939 The Irgun conducted a campaign of violence against Palestinian Arab civilians resulting in the deaths of at least 250.

* 1916 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

When Grobba reported that the Iraqis as Arab nationalists saw the British and the Jews as their enemies and wished to ally themselves with Germany against their common foes, Ribbentrop was delighted and become obsessed with the idea of an Iraqi-German alliance.

Bin Laden sent Arab recruits to join the fight against the United Front.

The strategic location was also attractive ; it was used either as a defensive position against enemies approaching the Arab hinterland or as a stepping-stone toward Lebanon's neighbors.

Syria was charged by Arab League with disentangling the combatants and restoring calm from the time of the second Lebanese civil war ( which began in 1975 ) until 2005 when the Lebanese revolted against the Syrian presence and caused the withdrawal of Syrian troops with the support of the International community.

After the 1969 coup, U. S .- Libyan relations became increasingly strained because of Libya's foreign policies supporting international terrorism and subversion against moderate Arab and African governments.

In 740, spurred by puritanical Kharijite agitators, the Berbers revolted against Arab rule.

Morocco also was among the first Arab and Islamic states to denounce the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks in the United States and declare solidarity with the American people in the war against terror.

The Janjaweed militia consists of armed Arab Muslims fighting for the government in Khartoum against non-Arab Muslim " rebels ".

" King Hussein of Jordan — the only leader of an Arab country to publicly denounce the Olympic attack — called it a " savage crime against civilization ... perpetrated by sick minds.