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Sykes-Picot, Middle East Underwriter, Dead at 100

In 1916, in the middle of World War I, Great Britain and France signed a secret pact in London, negotiated by the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, that has determined the fate and political order of the Middle East ever since. But not for much longer.

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