The Middle East Series part 3: The Sykes-Picot Agreement

Travel back to 1916, a time when World War I was reshaping the globe, and the Ottoman Empire teetered on the edge of collapse. In this video, we unravel the secretive and infamous Sykes-Picot Agreement—a deal between Britain and France that redrew the Middle East. While promising Arab independence, Britain and France were secretly carving up the region for their own imperial gains.
Discover how these arbitrary borders ignored the region's deep ethnic, tribal, and religious diversity, sowing seeds of conflict and betrayal that echo to this day. From the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to ongoing global power struggles, we examine how this colonial pact reshaped not just maps but the course of history.