Removing Palestine from the heart of the Middle East map is not mere bias towards Israel; it is erasing the very standard of ...

Mapping the Middle East. During the British Mandate of Palestine from 1917 to 1947, British surveyors mapped the territories ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

Between October 7, 2023, and October 18, 2024, Israel, Hezbollah, and other Lebanese groups exchanged more than 13,600 ...

Iran ceasefire holds—good for Donald Trump. But how about he turns his attention to the war that Israel is still waging ...

Iranians take part in a protest against the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas, in Palestine Square in Tehran, on July 31, 2024. Tensions are rising in the Middle East.

A map shows the shaded areas of the Arab state recommended by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine in 1947. The unshaded areas are parts of the proposed Jewish state.

And maps produced in a conflict region, such as Israel and the Palestinian territories, tell a rich story about the relationship between mapmaking and politics. Mapping the Middle East. During the ...