Almost one hundred years ago Lawrence of Arabia was captured and held in Deraa. Just this past weekend Syria sent tanks and armored vehicles into the southern city located along the border with Jordan as it raided homes and deployed snipers. This is according to an April 26, 2011 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Syria Steps Up Violence.”
According to rumor Deraa was where the Turks tortured Lawrence and raped him. In Linda and Gary Cargill’s novels Captive At The Berghof and Escape From The Berghof, it is where Lieutenant Edward Ware, Lawrence’s adjutant, meets his fate in the dark eyes Helga von Wessel, the Arab siren turned German, while looking to release his leader from captivity.
In the past few days thirty-five were killed in Deraa where the Syrian uprising is the most intense since teenagers wrote revolutionary graffiti in March. During the Great War it is where T. E. Lawrence almost died.
According to rumor Deraa was where the Turks tortured Lawrence and raped him. In Linda and Gary Cargill’s novels Captive At The Berghof and Escape From The Berghof, it is where Lieutenant Edward Ware, Lawrence’s adjutant, meets his fate in the dark eyes Helga von Wessel, the Arab siren turned German, while looking to release his leader from captivity.
In the past few days thirty-five were killed in Deraa where the Syrian uprising is the most intense since teenagers wrote revolutionary graffiti in March. During the Great War it is where T. E. Lawrence almost died.
T. E. Lawrence