They came across the text of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and on November 23, 556 days after the deal was signed, published it in Pravda and Izvestia. Three days after that, The Manchester Guardian ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by people. This means the creation of borders is often a political exercise – ...

The anathema that Sykes-Picot has attracted tends to ignore the time and the context in which it was devised. In mid-1916, neither the two diplomats nor anyone else knew the outcome of a war that ...

On the centenary of this accord, known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement (after Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, the diplomats who devised it), many blame its outlines for the turbulence that ...

A senior Trump administration official described Israel’s modern borders as being drawn along “illusory” lines during ...

The Sykes-Picot agreement was just the beginning of the story. Rear Vision now has a new website that traces the story of the Middle East through the 20th century and into the 21st.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 predicted the fall of the Ottoman Empire and divided much of the Arab World into British and French ‘zones of influence’.

The 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement comes on May 19, marking a century that helped shaped the Middle East. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections.

Dead and buried or undead and haunting the Middle East today, the Sykes-Picot Agreement has echoes that still resonate. Despite the controversy when the text was revealed, the British and French ...