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Gertrude Bell and the Map of Modern Iraq

Building on our discussion of Gertrude Bell yesterday and her key role in determining the borders of modern Iraq, see the following articles (you must be on the NMH Virtual Desktop for the links to work):

Ellen Knickmeyer, “The Woman Who Put Iraq on the Map,” Washington Post, March 5, 2006. (A retrospective piece on Gertrude Bell — from ProQuest Direct and available only to members of the NMH community via the Virtual Desktop)

Also on Gertrude Bell - see Rory Stewart, “The Queen of the Quagmire,” New York Review of Books, Oct. 25, 2007

The articles are part of the IME Course Study Guide on Iraq

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Posted by Ted Thornton on Saturday, September 6, 2008, at 10:50 am. Filed under Assignments, Iraq, Middle East. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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