Though her adventures and achievements rank with those of famed fellow British explorer T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell is a historical figure familiar to few. Recently profiled in a little-seen ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - "Letters from Baghdad," a documentary on Gertrude Bell, the British writer, explorer, spy and political officer who helped shape modern Iraq, had its first screening in the country ...

Gertrude Bell, the North East-born explorer described as the female Lawrence of Arabia, has been honoured with an English Heritage plaque – on a London building. Born in Washington in what was then ...

The explorer, author, photographer, diplomat and stateswoman Gertrude Bell received a well–intentioned but starchy biopic earlier this year, with Nicole Kidman doing her regal best to infuse a ...

The King Abdulaziz Foundation (Darah) has unveiled rare archival photographs documenting a historic tour by King Abdulaziz Al Saud in the outskirts of Basra in 1916. The photographs, taken by British ...

Earlier this year, Werner Herzog’s dry-as-sand “Queen of the Desert” (with Nicole Kidman in the lead) came and went without a peep, and now there’s “Letters from Baghdad,” a loving, but laborious ...