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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture | Agatha Christie in Iraq |
 | | Married to the English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, first director of the British School in Iraq and a trustee of the British Museum, Christie spent several seasons cataloguing archaeological finds from Mallowan's excavations first in Iraq and later at Tell Brak in Syria, recording the work on early 16mm film. |
 | | When not working on site, Christie typed her novels, which are now translated into more languages and in more editions than Shakespeare, in a specially constructed room in the dig-house, raising the fascinating possibility that Miss Marple, amateur sleuth of the English village of St Mary Mead, was created not far from Baghdad. |
 | | Nevertheless, the exhibition reveals the intriguing and lifelong involvement that Christie had with the Middle East, and it emphasises the affection she had for Iraq and Egypt in particular. |
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