As part of the ACRPS conference "The First World War A Hundred Years On: Arab Perspectives", which was held in Beirut in February 2015, Ostour's academic board hosted a seminar on "The Arabs and World War I". The seminar was directed by Abdel Rahim Benhada, Deputy Editor of Ostour, and attended by a number of specialists and researchers working in the field of modern history of the Arab region including Jami Bayda, Saud al-Mawla, Abdel Hamid Haniyah, Abdel Wahid al-Makani, Fathi Lisir, Mohammed Al-Arnaut, Mohammed Jamal Barout, Mohammed Afifi, Muhannad Mabidin, and Nacereddine Saidouni. Topics addressed by a number of specialists attending the seminar included: the Arab status quo on the eve of the Great War; Arab participation in the Great War, in terms of material and morale; contemporaneous transformations within the Arab countries and their relation to the Great War; a reckoning of what the Arabs won and lost through peace treaties; and Arab intellectuals, and how the Arabs portrayed the Great War in journalism and in literary works, during and immediately after the war.