Gertrude Bell and the West’s Fatal Failure to Understand the Arab World

If you want to understand what keeps going wrong in the Middle East, from Raqqa to Qatar, listen—at last—to what Gertrude Bell was saying 100 years ago.

K. J. Wetherholt

Published Jul. 3 2017 1:00AM EDT 

K. J. Wetherholt

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