The Shammar are a tribal confederation made up of three main branches: the Abdah, the Aslam, and the Zoba. Dhari ibn Tawala was the chief of the Aslam Shammar, a group that also nowadays counts most of his members between Arabia and Iraq. He met John Philby in November 2017, in Zubayr, where the lea ...

Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...

Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...

Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...

Together with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, Sergeant John Philby was a key player in the Arab Revolt. Like Lawrence and Bell, he was first of all an Arabicist and an explorer, especially known for his accounts Heart of Arabia (1922) and The Empty Quarter (1932). In 1917 Philby arrived in al-Zubay ...

Sheikh Ibrahim of al-Zubayr participated in the organization of the Arab Revolt, helping Sergeant John Philby in putting together the leading tribe chiefs. In his book Heart of Arabia, Philby says that "[...] the desert alliance in this sector [i.e. Mesopotamia] was formally completed with the inclu ...

The photograph portraits two Berber women of the Chaouia people in their traditional dresses and ornaments., Title and date devised by Library staff. The photograph is signed with blind stamp. Pencil caption on the verso of the print., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0001-0003, 2-D Graphic ...

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 151., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0051, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953181, BIB-ID: 2346513

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 157., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0057, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953491, BIB-ID: 2346526

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 141., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0041, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21939883, BIB-ID: 2345471

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 127., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0027, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2189887x, BIB-ID: 2337817