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The first Arab Summit in Anshas, Egypt, in May 1946
From left to right: Syrian Prime Minister Fares al-Khury, Saudi Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul-Aziz, Iraqi Crown Prince Abdul-Illah, President Shukri al-Quwatli, King Farouk of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan, President Bshara al-Khury of Lebanon, and Imam Yehya of Yemen.

At the Arab League headquarters in Cairo in February 1948
From left to right: Sheikh Yusuf Yassin of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Riad al-Sulh, Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fihmi al-Nokrachi Pasha, Syria’s Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey, and Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem.

The Prime Ministers of Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria at the Arab League in 1948
The Prime Ministers of Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria respectively at the Arab League pictured in Cairo during the Palestine War of 1948. From left to right: Riad al-Sulh, Mahmud Fihmi al-Nokrachi Pasha, and Jamil Mardam Bey.

Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey with his Egyptian and Lebanese counterparts in 1948
Mahmud Fihmi al-Nokrachi Pasha is in the middle, Riad al-Sulh is standing left and Mardam Bey is standing right.

Syrian journalist Raja Shurbaji with Egyptian musician Mohammad Abdul Wahab in Damascus in 1965
Seating next to Abdul Wahab is Salim al-Lawzi, publisher and editor-in-chief of the popular Lebanese magazine, al-Hawadeth.

President Shukri al-Quwatli on a state visit to Egypt in 1944
President Shukri al-Quwatli on a state visit to Egypt in 1944.

At an Arab Summit in Anshas, Egypt, in May 1946
At an Arab Summit in Anshah, Egypt in May 1946. From left to right: Imam Yehia Hamid al-Din of Yemen, President Bshara al-Khury of Lebanon, President Shukri al-Quwatli of Syria, King Farouk of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan, and King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia.

A dinner at the residence of Mahmud Fihmi al-Nokrachi Pasha, the Prime Minister of Egypt, in Cairo in 1944
From left to right: Syrian Foreign Minister Jamil Mardam Bey, Egyptian Prime Minister Nokrachi Pasha, Lebanese Prime Minister Riad al-Sulh, Iraqi Prime Minister Fadil al-Jamali, and Yusuf Yassin, the special envoy of King Abdul-Aziz.

A political conversation in Cairo during the 1940s
From left to right: Edmond Homsi, Naim Antaki, Lutfi al-Haffar, and Makram Obeid Pasha.

Prime Minister Fares al-Khury with Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fihmi al-Nokrachi Pasha in 1944
Prime Minister Fares al-Khury with Mahmud Fihmi al-Nakrashi Pasha, the Prime Minister of Egypt, in 1944.

A banquet held by King Farouk of Egypt at Abidin Palace in Cairo in 1945
From left to right: The Hama MP Najib al-Barazi, Foreign Minister Jamil Mardam Bey, King Farouk, and Prime Minister Fares al-Khury.

A contingent of the Egyptian Army parading through Damascus on Syria's first Independence Day
They were sent to Syria under orders from King Farouk to take part in the festivities. The man leading the parade is Hussein al-Shafii, who later joined the Free Officers in Egypt and toppled Farouk in 1952, then becoming vice-president to President Gamal Abdul Nasser.

General Adib al-Shishakli in Cairo, congratulating the Free Officers on the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
From left: General Adib al-Shishakli - General Mohammad Najib, president of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). Behind Shishakli is Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser the Minister of Interior

President Adib al-Shishakli with the new leaders of Egypt after the Free Officers Revolution in 1952
From left to right: Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser - General Adib al-Shishakli - President of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council Mohammad Najib

Prime Minister Said al-Ghazzi visiting Gamal Abdul Nasser at his office in Cairo in 1954
Second from left is the Syrian Chief-of-Staff Shawkat Shuqayr, in white civilian suit, followed by Ghazzi then Nasser (in military uniform).

The Syrian-Egyptian-Saudi Defense Agreement being signed on March 15, 1956
Presidents Shukri al-Quwatli, King Saud, President Gamal Abdul Nasser

At a semi-Arab Summit in Cairo in February 1957
From left to right: President Gamal Abdul Nasser, King Saud, President Shukri aal-Quwatli, King Hussein of Jordan

President Shukri al-Quwatli on a state visit to Egypt in 1956
From left to right: President Gamal Abdul Nasser, Egyptian Vice President Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi, Marshal Abdul Hakim Amer, President Shukri al-Quwatli, Egyptian Vice President Zakariya Muhiddine. Standing behind Muhiddine is Abdullah al-Khani, the secretary-general of the Syrian Presidential Palace.