"The Mad Nun of Lebanon": the Strange Case of Lady Hester Stanhope, Part I

From MEI Editor's Blog Thu Jul 17 2014, 12:59:00

Lady Hester Stanhope

 "I think you are another of these desert-loving English: Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing."

-- Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness) to T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia

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