The woman... who created boundaries that we are proud of to this day
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was established for 500 years.
A blonde woman roams the Arab deserts alone, carrying only a pair of binoculars.!!
It drew political borders for the Arab region and divided it on the map into small countries forever before the Ottoman Empire breathed its last.
This blonde rewarded the Bedouins who helped her in her mission and sympathized with her, then she did the impossible to make them kings of these mini-states, where the kingship is inherited by their descendants until now.. In Iraq, she was called...the Khatun...and in Jordan and the Hijaz...the Mother of the Believers...and in Britain...the Queen of the Desert... The world considers her an archaeologist and writer...and she knows herself...just a spy...a recruited...!! That's the English Gertrude Bell (Miss Bell).
Gertrude Bell (in English: Gertrude Bell) is Gertrude Margaret Lothian Bell (born 25 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1285 AH / 12 July 1868), (died 2 Muharram 1345 AH / 12 July 1926), a British researcher, explorer and archaeologist who worked in Iraq as an advisor to the British High Commissioner Percy Cox. In the twenties of the twentieth century, she came to Iraq in the year 1333 AH / 1914 AD, and played a very important role in arranging its situation after the end of World War I. She was the breadth of her relations, knowledge, and experience in Iraq and the most important help to the British High Commissioner in engineering the future of Iraq, and the old Iraqis knew her by the title Al-Khatun, while some consider her a British spy. Miss Bell, along with Thomas Edward Lawrence, proposed the establishment of a founding council for the Iraqi state. With the aim of installing Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein as king of Iraq, she is credited with establishing the public library “Peace Library” and the Iraqi Museum.
The museum continued to preserve the most important antiquities it found, the ancient Iraqi Babylonian antiquities, manuscripts, and antiques, until the year 1424 AH/2003 AD, but some antiquities were stolen and destroyed in light of the deteriorating conditions during the war of invasion of Iraq. Many antiquities were looted and destroyed, and some of them were returned during the period after the year 1427 AH/ 2006.
Miss Bell was an influential personality and participated in the women's councils of society at that time. She criticized the style of women's collective speaking. She was also known at the popular level. There is a story of her with a bandit known as (Ibn Abdika), a famous bandit in the areas north of Baghdad, when... The beginning of the twentieth century, and it happened that Ibn Abdaka took over the train coming from Baghdad, and met “Miss Bell,” the well-known English official who was riding the train. When he knew her, he honored her and treated her warmly, so she interceded for him, waived legal prosecutions, and employed him in the state. She visited the Hail region in Saudi Arabia and recorded her observations about it in her memoirs.
Her biography was documented in an American feature film in which she excelled in acting..Nicole_Kadman..
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