More on: Middle East and North Africa This publication is now archived.What is the "road map?"A U.S.-backed peace proposal first floated in 2002, the road map sets a series of bench… ...

What might explode next? Here, the old map of the Middle East actually offers some solace. We’re simply starting to run out of places that the European imperialists screwed up.

The Middle East is in the complicated process of transformation. For decades since the 1960s, the Baathist totalitarian regimes in Syria and Iraq had organized the rejection front against Israel.

1. Redraw the map of the Middle East along ethnic, religious and other community lines. Invite the various, largely homogeneous, ethnic and religious groups to offer maps of their envisaged homelands.

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Pessimists, however, have now identified a new threat to the old map: jihadism, as embodied by ISIS. It is undeniable that transnational jihadism is the most dynamic political movement in the Middle ...

Drawing Lines - Ah good. The war is over and now everyone can get exactly what they wanted in a neat orderly fashion... yeah you all know that's not how it went. The double-dealing of the British ...

A Brooklyn public school is under fire after one of its teachers displayed a map showing Middle East geography that left out Israel, angering parents and other New Yorkers across the city, according ...

Middle East map carved up by caliphates, enclaves and fiefdoms 1 June 2015 AFP Islamic State has seized a swathe of territory across Syria and Iraq, which it calls a caliphate ...

The above map from Morgan Stanley illustrates why Iraq is crucial to the Middle East amid flaring sectarian tensions. Iran is 91% Shia, Iraq is 66% Shia, Syria is 16% Shia, and Lebanon is 30% Shia.