 
 <prompt> Wetin show face for middle east afta World War 1? Given di previous question, write a context wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context: <response>: After World War I, wen Britain and France divide up di countries for Middle East, apart from Turkey, between dem, based on top Sykes-Picot agreement—in violation of solemn wartime promises of postwar Arab autonomy—there come immediate reaction: di Muslim Brotherhood show face for Egypt, di House of Saud take over di Hijaz, and regimes wey army officers dey lead come enter power for Iran and Turkey. "[B]oth illiberal currents of di modern Middle East," writes de Bellaigne, "Islamism and militarism, receive major push from Western empire-builders." As e dey happen for countries wey dey undergo social crisis, di aspirations of di Muslim world's translators and modernizers, like Muhammad Abduh, mostly get to give way to backward currents. 