the Middle East 40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. ... the "crescent" of land mostly includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine.

Such maps reveal the desire by some in Israel for a “Greater Israel” – an area described in 1904 by Theodor Herzl, considered ...

The original secret Sykes-Picot map of 1916: “A” would go to France, “ B” to Britain ... of the 100-year old British-French plan that helped create the modern-day Middle East.

Much has been made of how European imperial powers reshaped the Middle East after World War I, a transformation often said to have begun 100 years ago this week when France and Britain signed the ...