The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to eth… ...

Id: 040674 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description. This course explores the role of empires in the Middle East from the 18th through the first half of the 20th century. During this period various ...

The Ottoman Empire, which governed the Middle East from Algeria to Iraq for 400 years, collapsed after World War I.In 1862, the Ottoman foreign minister, Ali Pasha, prophetically warned in a letter ...

As my new book outlines, the crimes of British rule in Palestine from 1917 to 1948 were built on a 19th-century religious desire to possess the Holy Land for the empire ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ...