Did The New York Times publish a redrawn map of the Middle East based on the New World Order? No, that's not true: It's an old opinion column published by the Times in 2013 that does not say it's a new Middle East map based on the New World Order.
The claim appeared in a video no longer available but archived here on TikTok on September 21, 2023, under the title (translated from Arabic to English by Lead Stories staff) "Grand Conspiracies." The video claims:
The plots to divide the Middle East and the Arab homeland were just ink on paper, but now, after 20 years of division and destruction, they have become a reality. This is the new map for the Arab world, based on the New World Order, and this map will be enacted in 2030.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Fri Sep 22 15:11:30 2023 UTC)
The video also contained a banner (translated from Arabic to English by Lead Stories staff) that said:
A new map for the Middle East, Division Plots are now news headlines
The article the video referenced is an opinion column published by The New York Times on September 28, 2013, written by Robin Wright and titled "Imagining a Remapped Middle East." The writer imagines a new map of the Middle East, but never describes it as part of a plot to redivide countries in the Middle East based on a New World Order.
