On 20 July 1951, Abdullah I, the first King of Jordan, was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Abdullah was in Jerusalem to give a eulogy at Riad Al Solh's funeral, the first
King Abdullah with Glubb Pasha, the day before his assassination, 19 July 1951
The trial for the murder, 18 August 1951
Sharifian Solution
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The Sharifian or Sherifian Solution was an informal name for post-Ottoman British Middle East policy and French Middle East policy of nation-building. At first put forward by T. E. Lawrence in 1918, i
Syrian National Congress, Damascus 1919–1920 On the steps of the Arab Club building
Seated: from right: Winston Churchill, Herbert Samuel Standing first row: from left: Gertrude Bell, Sir Sassoon Eskell, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, Jafar Pasha al-Askari
Coronation of Prince Faisal as King of Iraq, 1921
The sons of Hussein: Ali, Abdullah and Faisal, in the mid-1920s