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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 businessmen attending an economic forum in Beirut on March 21, 1933
Seated, from left to right, are: Omar Bayhum, Lutfi al-Haffar, Omar al-Daouk, a French guest, and Rashid Edde.

Prime Minister Saadallah al-Jabiri with Foreign Minister Jamil Mardam Bey in Beirut in 1944
From left to right: Lebanese Prime Minister Riad al-Sulh, Prime Minister Jabiri, Foreign Minister Mardam Bey, and Lebanese Foreign Minister Saleem Takla.

Prime Minister Jabiri visiting the Presidential Palace in Beirut in 1944
From left to right: Prime Minister Jabiri, Lebanese Defense Minister Emir Majid Arslan, President Bshara al-Khury, and Kamil Shamoun.

President Shukri al-Quwatli entering a horseback riding stadium in Beirut in 1944
Behind him stands his Lebanese counterpart Bshara al-Khury

At government headquarters in Damascus in 1944
From left to right: President Shukri al-Quwatli, Lebanese President Bshara al-Khury, Interior Minister Sabri al-Asali, Defense Minister Khaled al-Azm, unidentified, and Prime Minister Saadallah al-Jabiri.

President Shukri al-Quwatli in Beirut with the leaders of Lebanon in 1947
From left to right: George Haymari, Lebanese Defense Minister Emir Majid Arslan, Lebanese Economy Minister Kamal Jumblatt, Riad al-Sulh, Elias Khury, President Quwatli, President Bshara al-Khury, Lebanese Foreign Minister Henri Pharaoun, and Syrian Foreign Minister Jamil Mardam Bey.

Presidents Quwatli and Atasi with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal
President Shukri al-Quwatli and former President Hashem al-Atasi with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Ibn Saud and Lebanese Prime Minister Sami al-Sulh

A gathering of leading Arab politicians in Damascus during the mid-1940s
A gathering of leading Arab politicians in Damascus during the mid-1940s. Front row (third from left) is Sati al-Husari, the Syrian-born Minister of Education in Iraq, followed by two unidentified gentlemen, then Jamil Mardam Bey, and Jamil al-Madfaii, the future Prime Minister of Iraq. Eight from left, standing in the middle of the front row is Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. Next to him is Fares al-Khury, then Ihsan al-Jabiri, and Riad al-Sulh, the Prime Minister of Lebanon. Next to him is President Quwatli, then Ihsan al-Sharif.

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.

Foreign Minister Jamil Mardam Bey at the Lebanese Embassy in Egypt in 1944
From left to right: Sami al-Khury, the Lebanese Ambassador to Egypt, Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Lebanese Prime Minister Riad al-Sulh, Tahseen al-Askari, the Iraqi Ambassador to Egypt, Jamil Mardam Bey, Mansur Lahhoud, Omar Fathi, and Asaad Dagher.

A group of Arab politicians assembled in Cairo during the 1940s
A group of Arab politicians assembled in Cairo during the 1940s. Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Jamil Mardam Bey, Riad al-Sulh, Mohammad Ibn Abdul Karim al-Khatabi (a leading nationalist leader from Morocco), Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, and standing is Habib Bourgeiba, the future President of Tunisia.

President Quwatli at his summer resort of Zabadani with Lebanese President Bshara al-Khury in 1947
Standing behind Quwatli is Mahmud Fihmi al-Nokrachi Pasha, the Prime Minister of Egypt

President Shukri al-Quwatli with President Bshara al-Khury of Lebanon in 1947
The two men are taking a walk at President Quwatli's summer home in Zabadani

President Shukri al-Quwatli on a state visit to Lebanon in 1945
From left to right: Foreign Minister Henri Pharaoun, Habib Abou Shahla, President Quwatli, President Bshara al-Khury, Prime Minister Riad al-Sulh, and Abdullah al-Yafi.

A ceremony honoring Shukri al-Quwatli in Lebanon in 1945
Seated in the front row is Quwatli, and next to him is his son Hassan, then President Bshara al-Khury of Lebanon, Prime Minister Riad al-Sulh, and Justice Minister Said al-Ghazzi. Next to Hassan al-Quwatli (the child) is the landowner Nuri al-Ibish. Behind President Quwatli, to the far left of the photograph, are Issam al-Inklizi, a senior Presidential Palace employee and tennis champion, and Izzat Murayden, a professor of medicine at the Syrian University.