Daraa
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Daraa is a city in southwestern Syria, 13 kilometres north of the border with Jordan. It is the capital of Daraa Governorate in the Hauran region. Located 90 kilometres south of Damascus on the Damasc
Daraa in 2008
Protests in 2013
T. E. Lawrence
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Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First
Daraa
…the construction of the Hejaz Railway, Daraa became a chief junction of the railroad. In his book Seven Pillars and a letter to a military colleague, T. E. Lawrence says he was captured by the Ottoman military in Daraa, where he was beaten and sexually abused by the local Bey and his guardsmen. During the Battle…
Lawrence in 1918
Lawrence's birthplace, Gorphwysfa, in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire
The Lawrence family lived at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford from 1896 to 1921.
Leonard Woolley (left) and Lawrence at the excavation of Carchemish, c. 1912