Arabist
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An Arabist is someone, often but not always from outside the Arab world, who specialises in the study of the Arabic language and culture.
French Arabist Louis Massignon in Cairo
Gertrude Bell
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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became infl
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…Younger, to whom she acted as hostess, took up a life of travel. She spent most of her life in the Middle East and was accepted as Queen of the Bedouin. Gertrude Bell, was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy. She played a major role in establishing and helping administer…
Gertrude Bell in 1909, visiting archaeological excavations in Babylon
1876 portrait of Sir Hugh Bell and his 8-year-old daughter Gertrude. Portrait by Edward Poynter.
1907 photograph of Bell and Fattuh, an Arab guide who accompanied her on many of her trips
Bell's workers at the Binbirkilise excavations in 1907