Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East

The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East



Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine-the future state of Israel. No other confere...