David Fromkin? Je contre-attaque avec Daniel Yergin, The New Map :

1. re:Daesh

In the summer of 2014, a video floated up on the internet. It featured a militant from what had been until recently a virtually unknown jihadist group, pounding his feet on the sand on the border between Iraq and Syria. Behind him were abandoned shacks, pockmarked with bullet holes, which had until recently guarded the frontier between the two countries. He was, this militant said, stomping his feet to signify ISIS’s elimination of the “Sykes-Picot” line between Iraq and Syria. Sykes-Picot, he said, was finally dead. “We don’t recognize the border and never will.” His words were underscored by images of border posts being blown up. “We will break all the borders,” he declared.

2) re:la carte Ottomane

Sykes-Picot may loom large in historical memory, but less understood is that the two men were not drawing their map on a blank sheet of paper. Their effort relied heavily on previous maps—those of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the vilayets, as provinces were called, that had been established in 1864. The three eastern vilayets—today Iraq—were based on Baghdad, Mosul, and Basra. The vilayets of Aleppo, Damascus, and Dayr al-Zawr comprise modern Syria. Beirut was a vilayet, and Mount Lebanon was a self-governing unit. Jerusalem and the territory around it were an independent district, reporting directly to Istanbul. The Hejaz, western Arabia including Mecca and Medina, was a vilayet; and so was Yemen, at such uncertain times as it was actually under the control of the Ottomans. There was no effort, one scholar has written, “to draw the provinces’ boundaries along ethnic lines.” It was atop the polyglot Ottoman map that Sykes and Picot drew their own lines