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This thought-provoking study is by an experienced scholar of Iraq and of Gertrude Bell’s life. Now Dr. Lukitz reappraises and refines her analysis of both the region and Bell’s contradictions and significance for history and historians. Her writing is fortified by focusing on rich, untapped miscellaneous documents within Bell’s archive alongside uncensored family correspondence. This makes compelling reading. * Angela V. John, Honorary Professor of History, Swansea University, UK * Gertrude Bell remains an enigmatic and controversial person in Middle Eastern history after World War I. Through a close reading of Bell’s letters and informed through the author’s previous historical and biographical studies, in this ‘Reappraisal’ Lioara Lukitiz offers new and nuanced insights to Bell’s role in the British responses to the emerging variations of nationalism and radical Islam which came to shape contemporary Iraq. * Jim Crow, Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK *

This thought-provoking study is by an experienced scholar of Iraq and of Gertrude Bell’s life. Now Dr. Lukitz reappraises and refines her analysis of both the region and Bell’s contradictions and significance for history and historians. Her writing is fortified by focusing on rich, untapped miscellaneous documents within Bell’s archive alongside uncensored family correspondence. This makes compelling reading. * Angela V. John, Honorary Professor of History, Swansea University, UK *

This thought-provoking study is by an experienced scholar of Iraq and of Gertrude Bell’s life. Now Dr. Lukitz reappraises and refines her analysis of both the region and Bell’s contradictions and significance for history and historians. Her writing is fortified by focusing on rich, untapped miscellaneous documents within Bell’s archive alongside uncensored family correspondence. This makes compelling reading. * Angela V. John, Honorary Professor of History, Swansea University, UK * Gertrude Bell remains an enigmatic and controversial person in Middle Eastern history after World War I. Through a close reading of Bell’s letters and informed through the author’s previous historical and biographical studies, in this ‘Reappraisal’ Liora Lukitz offers new and nuanced insights to Bell’s role in the British responses to the emerging variations of nationalism and radical Islam which came to shape contemporary Iraq. * Jim Crow, Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK *

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Liora Lukitz holds a PhD from LSE and an award from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation that made possible the publication of three books and many articles. She is also the author of A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq (I.B. Tauris, 2006) and the upcoming title Ancient History and Technology, New Concepts of Communication (2025)

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