One hundred years ago on May 16 Britain and France signed a secret deal to carve up the carcass of the moribund Ottoman Empire that has since become a byword in the Middle East for imperialist ...
Map of the Sykes–Picot Agreement signed by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, May 8, 1916 (U.K. National Archives image). This month marks the centenary of the Sykes-Picot treaty, a French-English ...
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Lawrence in Arabia author Scott Anderson about the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret pact signed among allied nations... 'Lawrence In Arabia' Author Examines Lasting Impact ...
Key Point: 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 ...