The Sykes-Picot Moment in the Middle East:
Border Making, International Intervention and the Uncertain Legacy of WWI Diplomacy in the Middle East
Monday ,7 November, 2016
Opening Event
Greetings:
Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Dr. Abigail Jacobson, Head of the Mediterranean Unit at the Van
Leer Jerusalem Institute
Keynote address:
Prof. Eugene Rogan, The Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College,
Oxford
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Wartime Context