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Christopher Simon Sykes

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CLOAK AND DAGGER

Scapegoat for a Century of Mideast Chaos

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed 100 years ago, led to disasters in the Mideast. Yet, as Sykes’s grandson and biographer tells us, Sykes himself was a young idealist.

Christopher Simon Sykes

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