Not too long ago, the know-it-all set was unanimous in its view that Sykes-Picot was dead. The demise of the Middle East’s state system was beyond question. Libya did not survive Barack Obama ...

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 ...

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 (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.