Regional tensions and crises underpinned the first day of the Arab summit, as Algeria, the host country, attempts to unite the twenty-two members of the league under the summit’s slogan, “reunion.” “The regional and international contexts (are) marked by rising tensions and crises, particularly in the Arab world, which in its modern history hasn’t seen a period as difficult as the one it is currently undergoing,” Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algeria’s president, said at the meeting’s inaugural session. Tensions were visible on the first day of the Arab states’ “reunion” amid the absence of high-profi…