ArchiveJune 2016

June-July 2016 / For the history buffs in all of us, we would do well to remember what happened in 1916 while the First World War was raging on. Two mid-level diplomats, Mark Sykes and Francois George’s-Picot negotiated the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which became the blueprint for carving up the Ottoman Empire. While well-meaning, their actions inadvertently set in motion decade upon decade of...