Abd al-Ilah
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Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz was a cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and was regent for his nephew King Faisal II, from 4 April 1939 to 23 May 1953, when Faisal came of
Portrait by Cecil Beaton, c. 1939-45
Abd al-Ilah (holding hat) at Mount Vernon in 1945
One side of the Anshas conference, from right to left: Abdullah I of Jordan, Farouk I of Egypt and Sudan, Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli, Abd al-Ilah, and crown prince Saud of Saudi Arabia, Anshas, 1946.
Mutilated corpse of Abd al-Ilah hanging from a balcony.
Ali bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, was King of Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca from October 1924 until he was deposed by Ibn Saud in December 1925. He was the eldest son of King Hussein bin Ali and a
Photograph by Zoltan Kluger, 1933
Ali bin Hussein with Daoud El-Issa, journalist and manager of the Falastin newspaper, aboard a ship at Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine in 1933