Cairo 1921: Ten Days That Made the Modern Middle East
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From March 12 to 21, 1921, Britain, as the main mandate power in the Middle East, held a conference in Cairo under the leadership of its Secretary of Colonial Affairs, Winston Churchill, to resolve the future of the Arab countries in the Middle East after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The ten-day conference was intended to redraw the map of the Middle East, establish kingdoms in Iraq and Transjordan, and confirm the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine - the future state of Israel. British officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, ambitiously tried to bring the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism, but their prejudices profoundly changed the Middle East in the decades that followed.
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