Faisal I King of Iraq

She apparently had a friendly, teasing relationship while journeying with Ahmed Hassanein , who went with her to Kufra but who was not, it seems, the creative mind behind the journey. Magazine publisher Sir Neville Pearson

RF met Gertrude Bell on these travels, and became a strong supporter of King Faisal , who was installed as Hashemite ruler of the new nation of Iraq at a Cairo conference of spring 1921...

Shortly before this, GB had persuaded King Faisal of Iraq, during a birthday dinner at her home, to give his approval for a law protecting archaeological excavations in Iraq. Her position as Director of Archaeology...

GB thought like a colonial administrator, but like an enlightened one. A recent reviewer insists that she never doubted the value to Iraq of a system of government mostly foreign to their own traditions.

In Quest. The Story of Anne, Three Men, and Some Arabs, RF makes her Anne (widowed young and suddenly) set out on travels in North Africa and the Middle East to divert her mind...

She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...