Gertrude Bell.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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A passionate enthusiast of the Arab world, whose deserts she travelled with evening bags and embroidered tablecloths, Bell was instrumental in the creation, after the First World War, of an independent Iraq. Working as a diplomat and intelligence officer, she was sharply critical of British attempts to govern people...

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