But on to new business—which, in this case, is old business. 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.

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Just as recent political dynamics have rendered the old map of the Middle East obsolete, so have large-scale social changes. From the 1950s through the 1980s, the mass migration of laborers from ...

A year ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the UN General Assembly with a map depicting the “New Middle East”. It presented a vision of regional transformation anchored ...

At the U.N. General Assembly in September, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, brandished a map titled “The New Middle East” and asserted that Israel’s ties with Arab states were ...

In late September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heralded a prosperous and connected “New Middle East.” But it turns out the “old” Middle East was impossible to bury.

Redrawing the Middle East map: Iran, Syria and the new Cold War. What originally brought Syria and Iran together was not the Shia sect, but Iraq – the common enemy both hated and feared ...

Much of what we are now seeing in the Middle East is the consequence of the neo-con fantasy that a post-Saddam, Shiite majority-led Iraq would not only counter-balance Tehran, but act as the edge ...

For so much of the Arab Middle East to be under self-rule is relatively new. Two big exceptions that you can see on this map are Morocco and Egypt, which have spent more of the last 500 years as ...