Gertrude Bell
‘I glimpse her ahead of me’ – a solo female traveller follows her hero across Turkey
Gertrude Bell travelled extensively through Turkey before and after the first world war and the author plays dogged detective in her wake
Syria's Stalingrad: how Aleppo slipped from tolerance to terrorism
Justin Marozzi on the bitter irony of Aleppo’s ancient motto
The enlightened king of Iraq
Alan Rush admires the humane, enlightened Faisal I, who fought with T.E. Lawrence and devoted his life to Arab rights, independence and unity
