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The Sykes-Picot agreements – phase two of the partition process

Exactly a hundred years ago, in 1916, expecting the imminent collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and in order to expand their spheres of influence in the Middle East, the United...

The McMahon-Hussein correspondence: phase one of the partition process

Kawthar Guediri

“because it marches with our immediate aims, the break up of the Islamic 'bloc' and the defeat and disruption of the Ottoman Empire, and because the states [Sharif Hussein] would...