James Barr: Sykes and Picot met for the first time in December 1915, and they were able to agree to a carve-up of much longer lines than Sykes had proposed to the council a few weeks earlier.

Sykes-Picot has become a cliche: ... Pointing to a map, Sykes told his political masters in London that he wanted to draw a straight line stretching from the ‘e’ in Acre, ...

Reaching its centenary amidst a general chorus of vilification around the Middle East, the legacy of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 has never looked more under assault, says Jim Muir.

The original secret Sykes-Picot map of 1916: "A" would go to France, "B" to Britain. Presenter: The Making of the Modern Arab World A map marked with crude chinagraph-pencil in the second decade ...

That Sykes-Picot deal By NEVILLE TELLER APRIL 30, 2016 21:43 ... the on-line site history.com favors May 19; the Jewish Virtual Library maintains that it came into existence on May 23.

Sykes and Picot never consulted local inhabitants or political leaders in the Middle East. In fact, the world learned of the plan only after the new, communist government in Russia published the ...

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Sykes, along with his equally driven French counterpart, the former consul in Beirut, Francois George-Picot, came up with perhaps the most fateful diagonal line ever drawn on a map.

Named after its negotiators, Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, the secret wartime deal proposed dividing the Middle East between Britain and France, down an extraordinary line. To quote ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Journalist [archival]: Syria is splintering and fragmented further as the long civil war continues ...