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The Arabian Commission to the Peace Conference at Versailles and its advisors. Emir Feisal with, from left to right, Mohammed Rustum Bey Haidar of Baalbek, Brigadier General Nuri Pasha Said, Captain Rosario Pisani, T. E. Lawrence, Feisal's servant and Captain Hassan Bey Kadri.
22nd January 1919.

“The whole history of the Middle East in the half century between 1919 and 1969 is a history of the undoing of the work of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the settlements made after the First World War.”
— Jon Kimche, Swiss journalist and author

Kabul, Afghanistan, 13th December 1929.

A scene of destruction in a town while rebel leader General Nadir Khan was fighting for control of Kabul. He was elected to the Afghan national assembly in October 1929.

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