Akil Awan

Map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, December 1918. Qatar Digital Library. Public Domain.

Sykes-Picot: Architects of Failure in the Middle East

Signed in 1916, the Sykes-Picot Agreement became shorthand for Western treachery, greed, and imperialism in the Middle East.

Betrayed by the British: King Feisal of Iraq on a visit to to London, November 1927.

ISIS and the Abuse of History

The defeat of ISIS can only be achieved if we take a long view and question the Jihadists’ simplistic interpretation of the West’s troubled relationship with the Middle East.