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

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 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 ...

History has presented us with remarkable personalities who transformed their countries, reshaping their landscapes and making ...

On May 16, 1916, representatives of Great Britain and France signed an agreement that had been negotiated by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to divide up the Middle East into ...

Of course, the Safadi list of enduring nations are not nations at all but a conglomeration of tribes and ethnic groups who have been fighting one another since 1916, when Sykes and Picot divided ...

The current Middle East is a result of fragmentation based on the Sykes-Picot Agreement (a secret agreement that Britain, France and Russia concluded in 1916 on a partition of the Ottoman Empire).

then part of France’s La Syrie Integrale (Greater Syria), the government in Paris was determined to have its cut but had to give up the claims to Mosul and Palestine that had been written into the ...

British guitarist John Sykes, best known for his work with rock bands Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, has died aged 65 “after a hard fought battle with cancer,” according to a statement on his website.