سحر التسمية ووهم الخرائط “بناية الأسُود” في بيروت و”وعد” سايكس-بيكو

The Magic of Naming and the Illusion of Maps: "The Lions' Building" in Beirut and the Sykes-Picot "Promise"

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The "Lion Building" has no lions and "Sykes-Picot" is not the partition map — naming is the power of erasure. Naming kills.

مائة عام على اتفاقية سايكس-بيكو واعلان بلفور

One Hundred Years Since the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration

Conspiracy-seekers hunting for "projects" overlook the declared imperial strategy: the "Global War on Terror" — a real imperial project that needs no quotation marks.

فوّاز طرابلسي: حضور سايكس ـ بيكو فاعل في الثقافة السياسية العربية

Fawwaz Traboulsi: Sykes-Picot Remains Active in Arab Political Culture

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Sykes-Picot became predetermined fate whitewashing rulers—but current borders don't even match its map.

مئوية سايكس بيكو – نقاط على حروف الخرائط والتاريخ

The Sykes-Picot Centenary - Dots on the Letters of Maps and History

Bidayat

The article deconstructs the mythologization of Sykes-Picot, showing it as a prolonged colonial process linked to the Balfour Declaration for seizing Palestine, and reshaping the region based on major powers' interests while denying the majority self-determination.

تقاسيم على مقام الوحدة والتقسيم – تصوّرات عربية لاتفاقية سايكس-پيكو

Variations on Unity and Partition - Arab Perceptions of the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Bidayat

ISIS declared it "broke Sykes-Picot" — as if the borders weren't already a sieve. The agreement has become a myth: one headline suffices to launch partition paranoia.

وعد بلفور: نظرة جديدة مقالتي اليوم في القدس العربي

The Balfour Declaration: A New Look - My Article Today in Al-Quds Al-Arabi

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was less about serving Zionism than it was a British pretext to seize the mandate over Palestine under the guise of minority protection, thereby denying the majority of its inhabitants their political rights.

وعد بلفور – نظرة جديدة

The Balfour Declaration - A New Look

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The Balfour Declaration was not merely a commitment to a national home, but a colonial tool to secure the British Mandate over Palestine and deny the Arab majority its political rights by defining them as "non-Jewish communities".