The Sykes-Picot Agreement at 100: Rethinking the map of the modern Middle East | LIVE STREAM

May 16 marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret convention that outlined how to partition the Ottoman Empire after World War I and served as the foundation for the modern Middle East. As sectarian conflicts proliferate, we keep hearing that the borders drawn by the former colonial powers of Great Britain and France are no longer relevant and exacerbate tensions among nations. Groups that sought redress at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, such as the Kurds, have renewed their drive to rethink today’s maps. Meanwhile, ISIS is de facto redrawing them around its self-declared caliphate.

Is it time to revisit the borders of old? Is the Middle East simply a group of “tribes with flags” confined within the boundaries of artificial nations? What would a post-Sykes-Picot Middle East look like? On the centenary of this pivotal agreement, AEI welcomes historians, practitioners, and analysts to think through these questions and the future of the Middle East.

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