arab summits

Arab leaders assembled in Beirut during the Suez Canal War of 1956
From left to right: King Faisal II of Iraq, King Hussein of Jordan, Shukri al-Quwatli of Syria, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Kamil Shamoun of Lebanon.

Arab leaders assembled in Beirut on November 14, 1956
From left to right: King Faisal of Iraq, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, King Hussein of Jordan, President Shukri al-Quwatli of Syria, Prime Minister Sabri al-Asali, President Kamil Shamoun of Lebanon, Nazem al-Qudsi, the Speaker of the Syrian Parliament, ex-Lebanese Prime Minister Abdullah al-Yafi, and Prime Minister Saeb Salam of Lebanon. Between Shamoun and Qudsi stands Emir Majid Arslan, the Minister of Defense in Lebanon and behind President Quwatli is Syrian Foreign Minister Salah al-Bitar

Arab leaders assembled in Cairo in 1968
From left to right: President Houari Boumédiène of Algeria, President Nur al-Din al-Atasi of Syria, President Abdulsalam Aref of Iraq, and President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt.

At an Arab summit in Libya in 1969, shortly after the September Revolution
The new Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sits in military uniform in the middle, surrounded by President Gamal Abdul Nasser (left) and Syrian President Nur al-Din al-Atasi (right).

The Arab Summit in Baghdad in November 1978
From left to right: President Hafez al-Assad, Iraqi President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, Vice-President Saddam Hussein, Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss

President Assad at the Arab Summit in Baghdad in 1978
From left to right: Iraqi Vice-President Saddam Hussein, President Hafez al-Assad, Algerian Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam

President Hafez al-Assad at an Arab Summit in Baghdad in 1978
From left to right: President Hafez al-Assad, Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry, Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein, and Iraqi Culture Minister Tarek Aziz

President Bashar al-Assad at an Arab Summit in Riyadh in March 2007
From left to right: A Saudi guard, Syria's Ambassador to the Arab League Yousef al-Ahmad, President Assad, Vice-President Farouk al-Shara

The Arab League Summit in Tripoli on December 2, 1977
President Hafez al-Assad is seated on the left side of the roundtable.

President Bashar al-Assad at the Khartoun Summit in Sudan on March 26, 2006
President Assad is pictured with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan