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The Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920

The Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920

Westrate, Bruce

Paperback

General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0271023244
ISBN13: 9780271023243
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 1992
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Founded in 1916, the Arab Bureau was a small collection of British intelligence officers headquartered in Cairo and charged with the task of coordinating imperial intelligence activities in the Middle East. It is most often remembered for its flamboyant cast of characters, particularly T. E. Lawrence, and its role in instigating the Arab Revolt to break Turkish control over the Arab-speaking Middle East. From the beginning, however, the Bureau was vilified within imperial circles as a group of amateurish and incompetent pro-Arab dilettantes. And ever since, it has borne much of the blame for Britain's terrible mishandling of Middle Eastern policy during and shortly after World War I.

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