Damascus in the Cold War

The atlas holds 7 people and 11 moments here, from 1958 to 1988. The most recorded lives are Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat.

Ali Khamenei
in 1984
1 moment here
Iranian Shia cleric and politician who was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and supreme leader from 1989 until his death in 2026.…
Anwar Sadat
from 1973 to 1977
2 moments here
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
in 1958
2 moments here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
Hosni Mubarak
in 1975
1 moment here
Egyptian military officer and politician who served as president of Egypt from 1981 until his resignation in 2011.…
Muammar Gaddafi
in 1970
1 moment here
Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from the 1969 coup until his overthrow and killing during…
Saddam Hussein
in 1971
1 moment here
Iraqi Ba'athist politician who served as Iraq's president from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003.…
Yasser Arafat
from 1962 to 1988
3 moments here
Palestinian political leader, founding member of Fatah, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004, and president of the…