Video of Lawrence in Arabia and Prince Faisal The Arab Revolt
The Arab revolt 19161918 الثورة العربية WORLD WAR I: 100 YEARS AGO The foreigners come out here always to teach, he wrote his parents from Carchemish, whereas they had much better learn. It was at Carchemish that Lawrence first came to despise the despotism of Ottoman Turkey, and to imagine an independent Arab nation with Syria at its heart; today, of course, Turkey is a democracy while Syria is in the grips of an unspeakably savage civil war. Karkamis, where the towns sleepiness gives way to a ting
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