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 ...

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 ...

The Sykes-Picot agreement, known officially as the Asia Minor Agreement of 1916, was arguably the first in a series of attempts by colonial powers to mould the borders of the Middle East.

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 ...

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.

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 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.

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 ...

The Sykes-Picot agreement is one of many colonial projects that we are still feeling the ripples of today.