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How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East - The New Yorker
How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East - The New Yorker
In the Middle East, few men are pilloried these days as much as Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot. Sykes, a British diplomat, travelled the same turf as T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), served in the Boer War, inherited a baronetcy, and won a Conservative seat in Parliament.
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