After the September 11 attacks, Wallach hosted a five-day conference that brought visitors and representatives from all over the world to support the prevention of terrorism. Īfter the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Wallach founded Seeds of Peace, an international summer camp that brings children together from all over the world who are dealing with war and conflict. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. He served as foreign editor and diplomatic correspondent for Hearst newspapers for nearly 30-years, traveling to more than 70 countries with five different Presidents, Lyndon B. John Paul Wallach, (Janu– July 10, 2002) born in New York City, was an American journalist, and author.

Multiple awards including the Soviet Medal of Friendship Journalist, Author and Founder of Seeds of Peace (Sept.Master's degree, New School for Social Research, two honorary doctorate degrees Despite some maudlin passages, Wallach, coauthor with her husband, John Wallach, of Arafat, vividly evokes a memorable personality. Not just another book about an eccentric lady traveler, this colorful, romantic biography tells of a woman with an inexhaustible passion for place that did not always substitute successfully for continuing heartbreak.

The first woman to earn a first-class degree in modern history at Oxford, she wrote seven influential books on the Middle East and, following WWI, was named oriental secretary to the British High Commission in Iraq. She refused-to her later regret-a married lover in the military and assuaged her disappointment by pressing British interests in Arab lands east of Suez, becoming in effect the maker of postwar Iraq. Dominated even there by her Victorian father, head of a family-owned ironworks, she was denied permission to marry a moneyless diplomat. After that, she could not be kept close to the dank family manse in Northumbria but was drawn to the sun-drenched Middle East. Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) had thrice failed and received the consolation prize, a trip to Teheran to visit her uncle, the British envoy there.

To Sir Mark Sykes, the pre-WWI British Foreign Office Arabist, ''that damned fool,'' Miss Bell, created an ''uproar'' wherever she went in the Middle East and was ''the terror of the desert.'' Three social seasons were all a young lady of good family was allotted to snare a husband.

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