Arabs Gallery

Emir Faisal at Wejh (now in Saudi Arabia)

Emir Faisal (1883-1933) at Wejh (now in Saudi Arabia) during the First World War. He later became Faisal I of Iraq. He directed the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in 1916 and became King of Syria in 1920. Expelled from Damas by the French, he became King of Iraq in 1921, supported by the English.
March 1917

© Imperial War Museum/Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans

Sword dance by Bedouin Arabs near the valley

Sword dance by nomadic Bedouin Arabs near the valley of the kings in Thebes by Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Two women dance a traditional sword dance to musical accompaniment from a recorder and men clapping. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1834. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Arab woman with goatskin butter churn, near Cairo, Egypt

Arab woman with a goatskin butter churn suspended from the broken stem of a date palm, at a village near Cairo, Egypt. A woman stands alongside with a child sitting on her shoulder. Date: 1922

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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