The Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East and Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), in collaboration ...

What began as a fight over a canal spiraled into a global showdown. The Suez Crisis revealed the cracks in old empires—and reshaped the modern Middle East.

A canal, a nationalist, and two fading empires—when Nasser seized the Suez, the world teetered on the edge of war.