Everything you ever wanted to know about the Middle East explained through maps, from Mesopotamia through the Ottomans to the Arab Israeli wars, the Arab
Tag: Colonial History
Borders and Empires -Various
Robert Kaplan has penned a provocative piece in Foreign Policy entitles “The Ruins of Empire in the Middle East” where in he argues for the
Would New Borders Mean Less Conflict in the Middle East? -Wall Street Journal
Since the Islamic State seized Mosul last summer, there has been a great deal of time spent discussing the dysfunctional nature of the Sykes-Picot border
Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq -The Daily Beast
Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq Some useful background on the creation of the modern Iraqi state, and a rare bit of