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The Grand Mufti of Palestine, Haj Amin Al-Husseini LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: PASSIA archives

Musa Qassem Al-Husseini LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: PASSIA archives

Khalil Jawhariyyah Brother of Wasif Jawhariyyah, a noted Christian Orthodox connoisseur, and the owner of the rich photo collection from which several images here are taken. Khalil is dressed here in the Ottoman Army uniform in W.W.I. Source: BTD

Nazif Al-Khalidi A Jerusalem engineer, one of the principal aides to the German chief engineer Meissner, who supervised the building of the Hijaz Railway, begun in 1900; this railroad linked Damascus and Medina. Source: BTD

Ruhi Al-Khalidi (1861-1913) LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Yussef Diya'uddin Pasha Al-Khalidi LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Mohamed Is'aaf Nashashibi LINK   to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Ragheb Nashashibi LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Jemal Pasha (2nd from right), governor and general commander of the Ottoman Fourth Army in Syria-Palestine in 1914. On 21 August he executed 32 leading Syrian and Palestinian intellectuals and professionals accused of supporting the Arab Revolt. Source: BTD

On 25 Aug. 1936 Lebanese Fawzi Al-Qawukji (3rd right) infiltrated into Palestine heading some 150 volunteers from neighboring Arab countries. He fought the French invasion of Syria in 1920, and organized later the resistance to the French Mandatory authorities there. Exiled from Syria by the French, he served as military advisor to Saudi Arabia before going to Iraq where he held the post of lecturer at the Military Academy in Baghdad, the starting point of his Palestine expedition. He further led Arab irregular forces in Palestine during the 1948 war. Source: BTD .

Khalil Ra'ad Famous Palestinian Protestant photographer from Jerusalem, and owner of a photo collection from which several images here are taken. Shown in the Ottoman Army uniform in W.W.I. Source: BTD

Saba Ya'qub Sa'id A Christian Orthodox lawyer, and legal counselor to the Orthodox Patriarchate in Palestine. Source: BTD

Haj Sa'id Al-Shawwa LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Sheikh As'ad Shuqeiri LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Sir Mark Sykes, a supporter of both Zionist and Arab aspirations. Source: ER-MG

Izzat Tannous (left) and Jamal Al-Husseini, on one of a number of delegations to London by Palestinian leaders during the 1920s and 1930s to present their case to the British government. Around 1936 Source: PTS

Ibrahim Tuqan (Palestine's poet laureate) LINK to brief description in PERSONALITIES section. [To return here from PERSONALITIES, click the BACK button in the top toolbar of the browser window.] Source: BTD

Adel Zu'aiter, with his sons, Wa'el (right), and Omar. Omar became an artillery officer in Kuwait. Wa'el, who became PLO representative in Rome, was assassinated there by Israeli intelligence agents in 1972. Source: BTD

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Legend for external sources and captions: BTD: Before Their Diaspora, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1984. ER-MG: Exile and Return, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. GM-ZE: The Grand Mufti, Cass 1993. MC-AA: My Country, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. MD-ST: Moshe Dayan, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. PTS: Palestinians and their Society, Quartet, 1980. Page design and execution by Anees Assali.