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'''Sargon Boulus''' (1944 – October 22, 2007) was an Iraqi Assyrian Arabic poet and short story writer.
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'''Sargon Boulus''' (1944 – October 22, 2007) was an Iraqi Assyrian Arabic poet and short story writer, who spent much of his  life in California.
  
 
[http://iraq.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9402 Sargon Boulus], Iraqi poet
 
[http://iraq.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9402 Sargon Boulus], Iraqi poet
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'''Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell''' CBE (July 14, 1868 – July 12, 1926) was a British writer, traveller, political analyst, administrator in Arabia, and an archaeologist who found Mesopotamian ruins. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1917.
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'''Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell''' CBE (July 14, 1868 – July 12, 1926) was a British writer, traveller, and administrator, who played an important role in founding the Hashimite dynasty in Jordan and Iraq.
 
 
Bell and T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) are recognized as almost wholly responsible for creating the Hashimite dynasty in Jordan and the modern state of Iraq. During her life, she was an unrecognised force behind the success of the Arab revolt in World War I. At the conclusion of the war, she drew up borders within Mesopotamia to include the three Ottoman Empire vilayets that later became Iraq.
 
  
 
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4043407.stm Gertrude Bell]
 
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4043407.stm Gertrude Bell]
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[http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/  Gertrude Bell project]
 
[http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/  Gertrude Bell project]
  
[[Media:Gertrude_bell_-_the_nation]]
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[[Media:Gertrude_bell_-_the_nation.pdf | Review of GERTRUDE BELL: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell.]]
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[http://www.presscom.co.uk/amrath/amurath.html Gertrude Bell (1911, rep.1924) 'From Amurath to Amurath']

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Sargon Boulus (1944 – October 22, 2007) was an Iraqi Assyrian Arabic poet and short story writer, who spent much of his life in California.

Sargon Boulus, Iraqi poet

Boulus' Obituary



Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (July 14, 1868 – July 12, 1926) was a British writer, traveller, and administrator, who played an important role in founding the Hashimite dynasty in Jordan and Iraq.

Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell project

Review of GERTRUDE BELL: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell.

Gertrude Bell (1911, rep.1924) 'From Amurath to Amurath'