Word: hejaz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides poring over dusty old files of Arab newspapers and digging out much hitherto unpublished diplomatic correspondence, Author Antonius had long interviews with the leading figures of the Arab revolt. The late Hussein, having lost his Hejaz throne, recounted British promises bitterly, supplied several missing links. The late King Feisal of Iraq, Hussein's son, revealed that he had at first opposed the revolt against the Turks...
...when he swerved at high speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas." In one year he tore up 15,000 rails, blew up 25 Turkish trains, 57 bridges and culverts. When...
Died. The Emir Ali, 64, onetime King of Hejaz, brother of the late King Feisal of Iraq and the Emir Abdullah of Trans-jordania; after long illness; in the Bagdad palace of his nephew, King Ghazi of Irak...
There remained the vast desert heft of the rest of Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better...
Engaged. Ghazi I, 21, King of Irak; and his cousin. Princess Aliza, 22, daughter of onetime King Ali of the Hejaz...