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King Feisal of Iraq is pictured here in a white suit, standing next to his older brother, Amir Abdullah of Transjordan, amid a crowd of men in Jerusalem. King Feisal and Amir Abdullah were members of a family known as the House of Hashem. Members of the Hashemite family have played a very important role in the history and development of Arab Nationalism. Their father, Sherif Hussein of Mecca, was a leading figure in negotiations with the British during World War I for an independent Arab kingdom. The Hashemites fought against the Ottomans during the war (the famous Arab Revolt in which T. E. Lawrence participated), believing they would be rewarded with an independent kingdom when the Ottomans lost. Instead, Feisal and Abdullah were made heads of the new Iraqi and Transjordanian Mandates, respectively. They then became kings when the territories were granted their nominal independence. The Iraqi monarchy was overthrown by military coup in 1958, but the descendants of Abdullah rule the Kingdom of Jordan to this day.

Gamel Abdel Nasser With Nikita Khrushchev During the Construction of the Aswan High Dam

Name: King Feisal of Iraq and Amir Abdullah of Transjordan During Feisal's Last Visit to Jerusalem

Material: 1 negative: safety film; 10.2 cm (4 in) x 12.7 cm (5 in)

Size: 911 x 1,024 pixels (110 KB)

Date: 1933 CE

Place of Origin: Unknown

Location: Wikimedia Commons

Source and Registration#: Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Attribution: Work of the American Colony (Jerusalem), Photography Department Photographer.

Location: Photograph is from the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID matpc.14162.

A. Holly Shissler

Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, University of Chicago

Erin L. Glade

Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago