Almost seven years ago, I wrote a cover story for this magazine about the coming collapse of the post-World War I Middle East map. I conducted ... up of Sudan into two countries (although we ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million ... No submarine relief is shown: water is blue. Names of countries and principal rivers and towns are in black.

The following maps help highlight ... while those in more stable countries were the only ones to survive. In the 1940s and 1950s, the endurance of monarchies in the Middle East was inseparable ...