Middle East Conflict Almanac | Building Nations I: The Arab World

• Turkey: unlikely survivor of the Ottoman collapse
• Persia/Iran: A special case in the Middle East
• Egypt: grudging pawn of the British
• Iraq
• Why Is the West So Interested in the Middle East?
• Syria and Lebanon
• The Arabian Peninsula before oil
• Jordan: stability amid turmoil
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Up until the end of World War I (1914–18; war in which Great Britain, France, the United States, and their allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and their allies), the Middle East had enjoyed...