Fawzi al-Qawuqji was supposed to have a promising future as a military man in the ranks of the Ottoman army. Born in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in 1890, he trained to become an army officer at ...

Fawzi Al-Qawuqji's name is probably unknown to anyone too young to have lived through the events of 1948. During the months preceding May of that year, however, his name, along with that of the ...