How the Middle East was invented

Much has been made of how European imperial powers reshaped the Middle East after World War I, a transformation often said to have begun 100 years ago this week when France and Britain signed the Sykes-Picot agreement. But fewer people realize that, in addition to creating the map of the modern Middle East, postwar European […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/19/the-modern-middle-east-is-actually-only-100-years-old/