Letters From Baghdad – Sat Feb 10, 4PM, Westport Town Hall

Westport Cinema Initiative presents “Letters from Baghdad” in partnership with the WestportReads program of the Westport Library
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2018  Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Westport Town Hall
Following the screening, the directors will participate in a conversation with Westport library board member, Maggie Mudd.

Tickets are available online or at the door.

Letters from Baghdad tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. She shaped the modern Middle East after World War I in ways that still reverberate today. More influential than her friend and colleague Lawrence of Arabia, Bell helped draw the borders of Iraq and established the Iraq Museum. Why has she been written out of history?