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Gertrude Bell

 

                                                      (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926)

Although the world is tearing itself apart with people claiming to be this, that, or another thing, Gertrude Bell was the real thing. When guns were blazing all about during WWI she and her companions were knowingly, or perhaps unknowingly creating our modern stage of conflict.

Gertrude Bell, lady of the desert, a strong will that shaped the modern history of the desert people.
Intelligent, a maker of kingdoms, all without guns. Brains for guns, and still remembered by those who use guns for brains.

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE was an English writer, traveler, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.

She played a major role in establishing and helping administer the modern state of Iraq, utilizing her unique perspective from her travels and relations with tribal leaders throughout the Middle East. During her lifetime she was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and given an immense amount of power for a woman at the time. She has been described as "one of the few representatives of His Majesty's Government remembered by the Arabs with anything resembling affection".