What Will a Trump Presidency Mean for the Middle East?
For Israel, it’s about more than the bilateral relationship.
November 10, 2016
The Sykes-Picot Agreement Didn’t Create the Borders of the Modern Middle East—and Redrawn Borders Won’t Fix Its Problems
Debunking the myths.
A common refrain of Western commentators writing about the Middle East is that its problems stem in part from the supposedly artificial borders drawn up by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot in the 1916 agreement that bears their names. However, David Siddhartha Patel explains, not only was the agreement never implemented, but the order that existed prior to 1914 was neither wholly imposed from without nor wholly artificial:
November 10, 2016
The Sykes-Picot Agreement Didn’t Create the Borders of the Modern Middle East—and Redrawn Borders Won’t Fix Its Problems
Debunking the myths.
Memo to the State Department: Building Houses in a Jerusalem Neighborhood Is Not Settlement Expansion
Get a map.
Reading the Book of Nehemiah in Light of Persian Imperial Propaganda
Striking similarities.
How Picking Mushrooms in New England Became a Jewish Tradition
Every fall, ex-Soviet Jews descend on the coast to forage.