The Map that Ruined the Middle East (the map of the Sykes-Picot - TopicsExpress



          

The Map that Ruined the Middle East (the map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed May 8, 1916) by Gabriel Scheinmann, Ph.D. candidate in international relations at Georgetown University thetower.org/article/the-map-that-ruined-the-middle-east/ A century ago, European powers redrew the lines of the Levant according to their own needs. They are gone, but the map remains, along with a shameful irony: While Europeans found a better way to set their own borders, the states they carved out of the Ottoman Empire continue to burn and self-destruct.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:42:48 +0000

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