Gertrude Bell. Iman R'ha

Gertrude Bell Biography

Gertrude Bell was born in 1868, in Washington Hall, England. She was an archaeologist, spy, writer, photographer and political activist. She’s known to help to establish modern Irak after the First World War.

Gertrude Bell was born in a very rich family and powerful family. She was a very good student, her teacher of history proposed to she to study in the Oxford University. In that time, this was a place which women didn’t. Finally, she graduated in only two years and was the first woman to doctorate at the Oxford University.

Later, she decided to devote to travel. First, she had traveled to Persia in 1868 and learned about the Persian culture. When she returned to England, she wrote a book called “Persian Pictures”. Few time later, she decided to return to Orient.

In 1899 she travelled to Jerusalem, a place that impressed her and decided to establish in it. She travelled over Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Arabia. She took a lot of photos about the Arabic people and the good place we enjoy in those lands. She learned to understand the mentality an Arabic culture.

In 1913 with a caravan of camels she decided to set out from Damascus to cross the desert of Arabia.

In the First World War, she had converted to an important collaborator of the secret Britain services because she had many contacts in Orient. She participated in a very important events like the Cairo Conference in 1921.

Finally, was died in Bagdad, when she was excavating in the 12 of July in 1926.