But the map served a political aim, too: to convince a skeptical world that ... moving its current inhabitants out and ...

after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and political interests. They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since.

But the map served a political aim, too ... inhabitants out and turning the enclave into ""the Riviera of the Middle East." Such a move would amount to another attempt to remake borders across ...

after World War I to advance their empires’ economic and political interests. They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since.