- Writer, traveller, political analyst, administrator in Arabia.
- The archaeologist who found Mesopotamian ruins.
- 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.
