Translated to Arabic, 'The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia' by the English writer and explorer Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868-1926). Bell was a contemporary of T.E. Lawrence. The Desert and the Sown is an illustrated chronicle of Bell's 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land of warring tribes under Turkish control. Translated to Arabic by Adil Zakkar.