{"id":112,"date":"2007-12-18T04:20:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2007\/12\/remodeled_middle_east\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T07:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T11:45:05","slug":"remodeled_middle_east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2007\/12\/remodeled_middle_east\/","title":{"rendered":"Remodeled Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past year or so, drawing maps of a reconfigured Middle East has become a pastime of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedforcesjournal.com\/2006\/06\/1833899\" target=\"_blank\">journalists<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/informedreader\/2007\/12\/06\/a-middle-east-with-natural-borders\/\" target=\"_blank\">experts<\/a>. Here is an early exercise that&#8217;s been overlooked, but that seems to have anticipated them all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The map below is the work of Michael F. Davie, a Lebanese-educated geographer and professor at the University of Tours in France. The map illustrated his article &#8220;Un Proche-Orient \u00e0 remodeler? Hypoth\u00e8ses et cartes,&#8221; in the August 2003 issue of <em>Outre-Terre<\/em>, a French journal of geopolitics. (Download the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cairn.info\/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=OUTE_005_0223\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) Davie doesn&#8217;t propose or promote this &#8220;remodeled&#8221; Middle East, but presents it as one possible outcome of changes roiling the region in the aftermath of the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2007\/12\/daviemap.png\" align=\"bottom\" height=\"556\" width=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin Over the past year or so, drawing maps of a reconfigured Middle East has become a pastime of journalists and experts. Here is an early exercise that&#8217;s been overlooked, but that seems to have anticipated them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1873,1910],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}