Architects of Revolt

This photograph shows some of the main figures behind the Arab Revolt at a meeting in Jiddah in October 1916. The Emir Abdullah ibn Hussein is seated centre. Standing, left to right, are Said Bey, a former Arab officer in the Ottoman Army, Colonel Cyril Wilson, former British Governor of the Sudan, Aziz al-Masri, another former Ottoman officer, and Ronald Storrs of the British High Commission in Cairo. Image courtesy of Imperial War Museum