The Arab Revolt, a revolt against Ottoman rule of the Arabian Peninsula.
Korda, Michael, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.
In this role, he worked with many of the people that helped to trigger the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks.
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In Egypt, during World War I as an intelligence officer, he supervised those who worked to start the Arab Revolt.
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In 1917 he journeyed through the Middle East with Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria; there are suggestions that the mission had a political motive involving Arab Revolt against the Ottoman government.
During the Arab Revolt in the early 20th century, Qasr Azraq was an important headquarters for T. E. Lawrence.
Hart also points to the experiences of T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt during World War I as another example of the power of the rebel/insurgent.
The flag is almost identical to the Palestinian flag, and extremely similar to the flags of Jordan, and Western Sahara, all of which draw their inspiration from the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule (1916–1918).
The title of the novel is a play on "Lawrence of Arabia", a popular name for the British Army officer T. E. Lawrence, who became famous for his exploits in the Middle East, particularly as a liaison during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918.
He is a diplomat and political leader, the head of the Arab Bureau, who first enlists T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) for work as a liaison to the Arab Revolt, and manipulates Lawrence and the Arabs to ensure Allied dominion over the post-war Middle East.
On January 25, 1918, Arab and Allied forces of the Arab Revolt under T.E. Lawrence and Prince Zeid bin Hussein destroyed a 900-strong Turkish force near Tafilah, which Lawrence referred to in his memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom as "Tafileh".
Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal argue that the 1834 Palestinian Arab revolt was a formative event for the Palestinian sense of nationhood, in that it brought together disparate groups against a common enemy.
Other sources for Dryden include D. G. Hogarth, an archaeologist friend of Lawrence who also served as an intelligence officer; Henry McMahon, the High Commissioner of Egypt who negotiated the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence which effectively trigged the Arab Revolt; and Mark Sykes, who helped draw up the Sykes-Picot Agreement which co-divided the post-war Middle East.
Special Night Squads, a British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit established by Captain Orde Wingate in Palestine in 1938, during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), Thomas Edward Lawrence, British soldier, liaison officer during the Arab Revolt