Gamal Abdel Nasser

Montenegrin outgoing Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic (C) at the Non-Aligned Movement Conference in Azerbaijan. Photo: Government of Montenegro

The first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in the capital of the former Yugoslavia, which was one of the founders of that organization.

'The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East' by Roger Hardy (Hurst, £20, 272 pages)

Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president who was elected with 52 percent of the popular vote, was toppled by a military coup and has now been sentenced to death by one court and to life imprisonment by another.  

In April 2014, the number of pro-Morsi defendants who were sentenced to death reached 683; it is as if it is not a courthouse but a slaughterhouse.