Across the Middle East, and into south-central Asia, the intrinsically artificial qualities of several states have been brought into focus by the omnivorous American response to the attacks of 9/ ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.

5 Maps That Explain The Modern Middle East Politics / Middle East Jun 29, 2017 - 05:30 PM GMT. By: John_Mauldin BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN AND KAMRAN BOKHARI : Nation-states are the defining feature of ...

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.

As the standard narrative goes, the tensions and conflicts that have afflicted the Middle East over the past century originate with the arbitrary redrawing of the region’s map by the British and ...

Mapping the Middle East. During the British Mandate of Palestine from 1917 to 1947, British surveyors mapped the territories to exercise their control over the land and its people.It was an ...