SWANA Insights

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The late Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Dome of the Rock of al-Aqsā Mosque, Jerusalem, drawn by Italian painter Giulio Aristide Sartorio.

“Sidon Looking Towards The Range Of Lebanon”... A lithographic painting by Scottish painter David Roberts. (1858)

Arab Chief M'Baruk bin Raschid Sultan of Zanzibar, 1880

lmazighen girls from Ouarzazate, Morocco. Circa 1950's

Amazigh woman from Morocco 1930.

Jabra palace, Saudi Arabia.

Founder of the PFLP, George Habash, in the midst of an impassioned speech at the 16th Session of the Palestinian National Council held in Algiers, February 1983. Infront of him a poster reads: “The Palestinian revolution was created to win”

An Arab nomad. Jordan, 1916-1918. Colorized.

A Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian, Tunisian, Saudi, and a Jordanian in a trench on the outskirts of Jerusalem. A contingent of the civilian volunteers who mobilized to take part in the joint Arab defensive against the zionist terror militias and their ethnic cleansing campaigns, 1948.

the beautiful nature of occupied Golan.

Iraqi Brigadier General Tahir Al-Asadi sits atop the wreckage of a Zionist fighter jet downed by Iraqi forces in the October 1973 Arab War against the zionist occupying entity

Brazilians in front of the Dome of the Rock during the restoration period, before the 1967 setback (Naksa). The Brazilians were part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces and had been present in the region since 1956. The image was colorized using artificial intelligence.

Winter nights in Morocco — Drawn By Gustave Achille Guillaumet. (1869)

King Saud of Saudi Arabia visiting 20th Century Fox Studios. On January 30, 1947, he dined at the studio’s Café de Paris, while a young and still-unknown Marilyn Monroe sat just a table away.

Yemeni man in traditional clothes.

Vietnam passing the banner of victory against imperialism to Palestine, 1972 PLO propaganda poster by Ismail Shammout

Abu Nawas Street in the city of Haifa, 1948. Palestine was not the wasteland colonialists later claimed it was to justify their occupation.