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While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With ...

The HarperCollins publishing house has omitted Israel from maps in atlases that it sells to English-speaking schools in the Middle East. Collins Bartholomew, a map-publishing company that is a ...

Since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, Israel’s military campaign has stretched far beyond Gaza , marking one of the most ...

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Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and ...

A Brooklyn public school is under fire after one of its teachers displayed a map showing Middle East geography that left out Israel, angering parents and other New Yorkers across the city, according ...

It was an administrative transfer of power in 1947 that saw territories in the Gulf region change hands from the Indian Political Service to the Foreign Office in London.

In the annals of modern Middle Eastern history, few documents have cast a longer or darker shadow than the Sykes-Picot ...

Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and ...