Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 116., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0016, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2184253x, BIB-ID: 2336477
In this picture the subject is posing for the photographer, looking into the camera., Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 142., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0042, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2195110x, BIB-ID: 2346397
Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographs are mounted on Landry & Deschavannes (L. & D.) cards and signed "Nadar. Office Général de Photographie. 53 rue des Mathurins. Paris"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0046-0002, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2346527x, BIB-ID: 2505783
Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographs are mounted on Landry & Deschavannes (L. & D.) cards and signed "Nadar. Office Général de Photographie. 53 rue des Mathurins. Paris"., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2016.0046-0008, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23465335, BIB-ID: 2505790
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine, also known as al-Jazairi, was an Algerian commander and a political leader who fought in North Africa, Syria, and Lebanon against the French. In 1860, during the civil war between Druzes and Maronites of Mount Lebanon, sheltered large numbers of Christians from the massac ...
Portait of Abdullah bin Hussein, commander of the Arab Eastern Army. He played a key role in the guerrilla revolt, in particular because of the besiege of Taif and Medina and of the sabotage of the Hejaz Railway. He was the ruling Emir of Transjordan under the British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, when ...
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 164., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0064, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953739, BIB-ID: 2346539
Thomas Lowell took this photo of Lawrence in Jerusalem, probably in 1918, when he was working as war correspondent in Palestine, during World War I. After the war, he launched the “Lawrence of Arabia” legend, using many images and films he realized when he was following T.E. Lawrence and the Ara ...
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 ...
