Dalia Ziada fled Egypt after publicly condemning Hamas and the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks against Israel

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Following the 2011 Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood ran political candidates in democratic elections in Egypt and Tunisia

Hamas participated in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006 and won a majority of seats

The Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned in most Arab and Muslim-majority countries

In 1993, Israeli leaders and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords, creating the Palestinian Authority

Dalia Ziada helped organize political opposition against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt following the 2011 Arab Spring

In 1987, the international Muslim Brotherhood established Hamas to counter secular Palestinian factions and oppose the state of Israel

In early 1988, an international Muslim Brotherhood delegation met with American Brotherhood leaders to arrange media, political, and financial backing for Hamas

When Dalia Ziada was an 18-year-old student in Cairo during the Second Intifada, she observed anti-Israel campus protest organizers burning the Egyptian flag

During the 1991 Gulf War, United States-led military intervention compelled the Iraqi military to withdraw from Kuwait

The United States provides billions of dollars in financial and security assistance to authoritarian regimes across the Middle East

Hamas political leader Mousa Abu Marzook directed the establishment of Hamas's first three front organizations in the United States while living in the country

T.E. Lawrence arrived in Beirut in July 1909 to begin his walking tour of Ottoman Syria

Ashmolean Museum Keeper of Antiquities David Hogarth advised T.E. Lawrence against walking across Ottoman Syria during the summer heat

On June 10, 1916, the Sharif of Mecca fired a rifle from his palace at Ottoman barracks to initiate the Arab Revolt

In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration supporting the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine

In 1916, Great Britain and France negotiated the Sykes-Picot Agreement to partition Ottoman Arab territories between themselves

In 1915, British High Commissioner Sir Henry McMahon conducted correspondence promising Arab independence to the Sharif of Mecca in exchange for an anti-Ottoman uprising

Arabian explorer Charles Doughty warned T.E. Lawrence that walking across Ottoman Syria in the summer would prove fatal

In the summer of 1909, T.E. Lawrence undertook a solo walking journey of nearly 1,000 miles across Ottoman Syria

In 1916, archaeologist David Hogarth helped establish the Arab Bureau in Cairo to advise the British government on Middle Eastern policy