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 * Sir Mark Sykes was an Arabist, elected Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party in 1911, and British diplomat that corresponded worked with Francoise George-Picot to make the Sykes-Picot agreement, (Bickerton, Klausner 37).
 * Sykes served in the South African (Boer) War and
 * Early on in WWI, Sykes was commissioned on diplomatic missions to the Balkans and Turkey.
 * "Sykes advocated a large, loose Arab confederation under Husayn, theSharif of Mecca, except for an international area around Jerusalem, holy to Christians, Muslims, and Jews,"
 * He published two novels, //The Caliph's Last Heritage// and //Through Five Turkish Provinces//, both about his travels.
 * "In two books and several articles, he revealed his preference for the religious, rural, and traditional elements of the East over the materialism and cosmopolitanism he so disliked in its cities," (About.com)
 *  He attended the Paris Peace Conference where he became sick (Spanish Influenza) and died.