Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million has been published by the Royal Geographical Society on behalf of the British Council. The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ...

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 ...

How maps’ names and border territories − and what they omit - can project different political objectives. Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional ...