The man who created the Middle East

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The story of the catastrophic British mishandling of the Middle East, told through the career of Sir Mark Sykes - Edwardian aristocrat, traveller, writer, politician and co-author of the infamous 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement, a shady deal between Entente powers to carve up the Middle East that lies at the heart of many of region's problems today. At the age of only 36 Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to a reviled and notorious treaty, drawn up in May 1916 between the French and the British, that divided up the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the event of an allied victory in World War One. Written without any Arab involvement, it negated an earlier promise that the British Government had made to the Arabs that they would gain independence. Drawn up in secret, a controversy has raged around it ever since.

subjects: History,  Nahostkonflikt,  Middle east, history, 20th century,  Great britain, foreign relations, middle east,  Great britain, foreign relations, france,  France, foreign relations, great britain,  Middle east, foreign relations, great britain,  Middle east, politics and government,  Sykes, mark , 1879-1919,  Da574.s85 s95 2016,  327.410092

People: Mark Sykes (1879-1919)

Places: Middle East

Times: 1914-1923