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page 2 of 4 Meeting in Jerusalem March 1921

1 Lord Allenby
2 Sir Herbert Samuel
3 Prince Abdullah ibn Al-Hussein of Trans-Jordan (1881-1951)
4 Prince Talal ibn Abdullah

Source: PASSIA archives		 Meeting in Salt city in Jordan, March 1921

1 Prince Abdullah
2 Colonel T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
3 Awni Abdul-Hadi
4 Marechal Salmond
5 Ali Rida Rikabi

Source: PASSIA archives		 Churchill meeting Prince Abdullah ibn Al-Hussein in Jerusalem during March 28-30 1921.

1 Sir Winston Churchill
2 T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
3 Prince Abdullah ibn Al-Hussein

Source: PASSIA archives		 Ahmad Al-Sharif Al-Senussi (holding a staff), leader of the Libyan Senussi tarigah, a religious brotherhood, visits Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem, ca. 1923.

Source: BTD  		 Al-Nabi Musa ("the Prophet Moses") was the name given to an important annual religious festival celebrated by Palestinian Muslims since the 13th century, entailing a procession from Jerusalem to the traditional burial site of Moses, near Jericho. Mounted on horseback is Haj Amin Al-Husseini. Al-Nabi Musa exemplifies how imbued Muslim Palestinians were with Jewish religious heritage.

Source: BTD  		 Meeting in Aqaba - Jordan January 1924
Palestinian (Arab Executive Committee) delegation paying homage to King Hussein I

1 King Hussein ibn Ali (King of the Arabs)
2 Musa Qassem Al-Husseini
3 Prince Abdullah ibn Al-Hussein
4 Sharif Nasser
5 Sheikh Abdul-Qader Al-Muthaffar

Source: PASSIA archives		 Meeting in Aquaba - Jordan January 1924

1 Musa Qassem Al-Husseini, heading a Palestinian delegation (Arab Executive Committee) to pay homage to King Hussein ibn Ali in Aqaba, 1924
2 King Hussein ibn Ali (King of the Arabs)

Source: PASSIA archives		 Lord Balfour, with field-marshal Lord Allenby and Sir Herbert Samuel, During his visit to Jerusalem for the opening of the Hebrew University, April 1925.

Source: PD-FK		 Emergency Relief Committee in session at Jerusalem HQ, 1929.

3rd R is Subhi Al-Khadra, representative of the town of Safed (in Galilee), later one of the founders of the pan-Arab Independence Party. 4th R is Abdul-Hamid Shoman, founder of the Arab Bank, which became the most successful and prestigious private Arab banking institution in the Arab World.

Source: BTD  		 Palestinian women entering the political arena for the first time, organizing their first 1929 congress and establishing a 14 women Executive Committee. The Committee is primarily from notable Jerusalem families such as the Husseinis, Alamis, Nashashibis, Khouris, and Budeiris.
The photo shows the visit of the delegation to the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir John Chancellor and his wife at the Government House in Oct. 1929.

1 Mrs. Musa Qassem Al-Husseini
2 Miss Elizabeth Nasser
3 Mrs. Tarab Awni Abdul-Hadi
4 Mrs. Matiel Moghannam

Source: PASSIA archives		 Mayor of Jerusalem Ragheb Nashashibi, standing center, hosting a tea party at his home in honor of Sheikh Abdul Hay Al-Kittani (seated to his right), a Moroccan religious leader and scholar, on the latter's visit to Jerusalem in 1930. Seated nearest right is Awni Abdul Hadi.

Source: BTD  		 Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, flanked by Christian religious dignitaries, ca. 1930.

To his right are the Greek patriarch and the Coptic bishop, and to his left, the Armenian patriarch and the Abyssinian abbot.

Source: BTD  		 A Palestinian conference called on the eve of the Fourth Palestinian Delegation to London; Jerusalem, March 1930.

Front row, LTR: Awni Abdul Hadi, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Musa Qassem Al-Husseini, Ragheb Nashashibi, and Alfred Roch.

Source: PASSIA archives and BTD		 Fourth Palestinian Delegation to London, April 1930. The women in the back row are Christian Palestinian secretaries accompanying the delegation. The 3 men in the same row are Palestinian correspondents in London for Arabic newspapers in Palestine.

Source: BTD  		 Pan-Islamic conference in Jerusalem
Dec. 1931

Source: PASSIA archives
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Legend for external sources and captions:

BTD: Before Their Diaspora, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1984.

PD-FK: Palestine Diary, Victor Gollancz, 1938.










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