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 history of the peoples of the new Middle East was subject to falsification. It is time to rebuild awareness of what actually took place The commemoration of the centenary of the signing of the ...

NEW YORK, United States - Centenarians are seldom in ruddy health. This is certainly true of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which celebrates its 100th birthday on Monday. The secret deal to divide the ...

And though it was soon overtaken by the implementation of other agreements and promises – including the infamous Balfour Declaration of 1917- it has come to stand for a whole Western attempt to divide ...

One hundred years ago, the Middle East was divvied up between the French and the British. The historian Maurus Reinkowski talks with DW about the long-term effects of the colonialist splitting up of ...

James Barr is the author of A Line In The Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that shaped the Middle East. The Sykes-Picot agreement turns 100 this week. Named after its negotiators, Sir Mark Sykes ...

In the annals of modern Middle Eastern history, few documents have cast a longer or darker shadow than the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. These so-called "lines in the sand," arbitrarily drawn by ...