Context: After World War I, when Britain and France divided up the Middle East's countries, apart from Turkey, between them, pursuant to the Sykes-Picot agreement—in violation of solemn wartime promises of postwar Arab autonomy—there came an immediate reaction: the Muslim Brotherhood emerged in Egypt, the House of Saud took over the Hijaz, and regimes led by army officers came to power in Iran and Turkey. "[B]oth illiberal currents of the modern Middle East," writes de Bellaigne, "Islamism and militarism, received a major impetus from Western empire-builders." As often happens in countries undergoing social crisis, the aspirations of the Muslim world's translators and modernizers, such as Muhammad Abduh, largely had to yield to retrograde currents.

Question: What two countries divvied up the Middle East's countries after WWI?
Answer: Britain and France

Question: What was the dividing up of the Middle Eastern countries in violation of?
Answer: solemn wartime promises of postwar Arab autonomy

Question: A reaction to Britain and France's actions was the emergence of what group in Egypt?
Answer: Muslim Brotherhood

Question: de Bellaigne attributed the growth of Islamism and militarism to what Western catalyst?
Answer: empire-builders

Question: What did the aspirations of the Muslim world's translators find themselves yielding to?
Answer: retrograde currents

Question: What two countries abandoned Middle East's countries after WWI?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was the merging of Middle Eastern countries in violation of?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What group's emergence in Egypt was a punishment to Britain and Korea's actions?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the aspirations of the Muslim world's translators find themselves immune to?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was not interested in being a translator?
Answer: Unanswerable