Hashim al-Atassi
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Hashim al-Atassi was a Syrian nationalist and statesman and the President of Syria from 1936 to 1939, 1949 to 1951 and 1954 to 1955.
Hashim al-Atassi
Al-Atassi (second person seated from the left) in a visit to Saudi Arabia in the early 1930s wearing a Bedouin garb. To his left are Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Emir Shakib Arslan, an Arab nationalist philosopher from Lebanon
The presidential inauguration of Hashim al-Atassi, seen here delivering his speech, in Parliament on 31 December 1936.
Hashim al-Atassi's second inaugural address, having been elected by a unanimous vote in Parliament in December 1949 to replace the dictatorship of General Husni al-Za'im.
Faisal I of Iraq
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Faisal I bin Al-Hussein bin Ali Al-Hashemi was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933. A member of the Hashemite family, he was a leader of the Great Arab Revolt during the First World War, and ruled as the unrecognized King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria from March to July 1920 when he was expelled by the French.
Faisal I of Iraq
Emir Faisal's delegation at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal, Captain Pisani (behind Faisal), T. E. Lawrence, unknown member of his delegation, Captain Tahsin Kadry.
Faisal (right) with Chaim Weizmann in Syria, 1918
Coronation of Prince Faisal as King of Iraq