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Making the Middle East: Arab Revolt to the Sherifian Solution

Cairo, 1921. Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence convene a meeting of British officials to chart a new vision for former Ottoman territory in Arabia and Mesopotamia. During WWI, the family of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, had risen against the Ottomans on the British promise of creating states for them—and Britain now has to make good. Already, British troops are suppressing a bloody uprising against their colonial rule in Iraq, and Hussein's sons are threatening to attack French-held Syria and Lebanon. For two weeks, a group that contains only two Arabs will sit in a Cairo hotel and divide up the Middle East—creating kingdoms, naming monarchs, planning troop movements, and solidifying support for a Jewish homeland. Episode by episode, we will see their decisions and the resulting consequences—some immediate, and some still playing out to this day.

We'll be covering this topic right after Ibn Battuta!