Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 If you want to understand what keeps going wrong in the Middle East, from Raqqa to Qatar, listen—at last—to what Gertrude Bell was saying 100 years ago. Photo ...

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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations isn’t the first biography of the singular archaeologist, spy, poet, mountaineer, and Arabist who helped map the borders and choose the first king ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The doc ‘Letters From Baghdad,’ narrated by Tilda Swinton, tells the story of Gertrude Bell, a British explorer who helped shape Iraq—only to be cruelly ...

I first encountered the work of the British traveller, archeologist, and spy Gertrude Bell many years ago, while hunting in the archives for a Carmelite priest named Père Anastase-Marie de Saint-Élie, ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The extraordinary British diplomat ...

In March 1921 Gertrude Bell, Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence mounted their camels in front of the Great Sphinx outside Cairo and smiled for the camera. They had agreed to make Prince Faisal, son ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post Lena Herzog, IFC Films Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell in Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert." The subject of ...

Laura Bush, in a recent CNN interview, disclosed that she was reading a biography of Gertrude Bell. It has yet to be revealed whether she passed the title on to the other side of the bed; but news of ...