Thursday, September 12, 2013 @ 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy Conference – Gertrude Bell & the Making of the Iraqi State
By Ali Khadr
Session II, Day I of the Gertrude Bell and Iraq – A Life and Legacy Conference
Gertrude Bell & the Making of the Iraqi State
Chair: Dr Glen Rangwala
Papers:
Dr Toby Dodge — Gertrude Bell and her contemporaries: Oriental Despotism and the British in Iraq: 1914-1932
Mr Moayad Hanoush — Secret papers – Gertrude Bell and her role at the Paris Peace Conference and the Cairo Conference
Dr Fouad Kadhem — Gertrude Bell and the genesis of the sectarian division in Modern Iraq
Organised by The British Institute for the Study of Iraq with the British Academy in association with the Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University.
Media Partner: BBC History Magazine
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