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Two historians debate the agreement’s legacy.
From: Al Jazeera World
Sykes-Picot: Lines in the sand
The story of the secret century-old deal which aimed to carve up the Middle East in ways that still reverberate today.
27 May 2016
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Sykes-Picot is a symptom of the Middle East’s fundamental problem, not its cause.
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