The Arab Nakba was namely the Sykes-Picot agreement, which divided much of the Arab world between competing Western powers. A year later, Palestine was removed from the Arab equation altogether and ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

The panel defended the borders created by the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, imposed following World War I. The Kurdish representative to the U.S., Bayan Abdul Rahman, pointed out that the current ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, based on al-Faruqi’s distorted claims, was finally signed in May 1916. Thus, of the three documents most profoundly influencing the establishment of the Modern ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement (and it was only an agreement) was negotiated between the French diplomat François Georges-Picot and his British counterpart Sir Mark Sykes between 1915 and 1916.

Not too long ago, the know-it-all set was unanimous in its view that Sykes-Picot was dead ... East—the map created by the British-French agreement to carve up the corpse of the Ottoman empire ...